Subspecific taxonomy of the desert locust, #Schistocerca gregaria# (Orthoptera: Acrididae), based on molecular and morphological characters

Chapuis M.P., Bazelet C.S., Blondin L., Foucart A., Vitalis R., Samways M.J.
2016

We evaluated the validity of the subspecific designation for Schistocerca gregaria gregaria (Forskål) and Schistocerca gregaria flaviventris (Burmeister), isolated in distinct regions along the north¿south axis of Africa. Towards this goal, we assessed the variation of multiple morphological and molecular traits within species. We first used elliptic Fourier and landmark-based relative warps ...

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