🦗Rocky Mountain locust
The Rocky Mountain locust is an extinct species of grasshopper that ranged through the western half of the United States and some western portions of Canada with large numbers seen until the end of the 19th century. Sightings often placed their swarms in numbers far larger than any other locust species, with one famous sighting in 1875 estimated at 198,000 square miles (510,000 km2) in size, weighing 27.5 million tons and consisting of some 12.5 trillion insects, the greatest concentration of animals ever recorded, according to Guinness World Records.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.
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This animal is extinct
Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 2014. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classInsecta
- ›orderOrthoptera
- ›familyAcrididae
- ›genusMelanoplus
- ›speciesMelanoplus spretus
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