India

India
India is within:
Region:	Asia
Subregion:	Southern Asia

Species gallery

• Highlighted species for India
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  Giant false leaf katydid (Pseudophyllus titan)
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  Two-spotted cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus)
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  Carinate locust (Trilophidia annulata)
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  Mongolian locust (Oedaleus decorus)
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  Italian tree cricket (Oecanthus pellucens)
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  Gastrimargus marmoratus
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  Pacific Ducetia katydid (Ducetia japonica)
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  Bombay locust (Patanga succincta)
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  Spathosternum prasiniferum
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  Mediterranean splendid grasshopper (Heteracris littoralis)
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  Splendid cone-headed grasshopper (Truxalis nasuta)
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  Common digging grasshopper (Acrotylus insubricus)
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  Slender green-winged grasshopper (Aiolopus thalassinus)
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  Short-winged rice grasshopper (Pseudoxya diminuta)
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  Irritating grasshopper (Euconocephalus nasutus)
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  Spotted locust (Aularches miliaris)

Locust breeding grounds

The Thar Desert, situated along the southern India–Pakistan border, constitutes the easternmost major breeding area for desert locusts.

Organizations

Locusts and grasshoppers are typically managed through a national plant protection system led by a country’s plant protection organization, ministry of agriculture, or equivalent biosecurity authority. They are often supported by specialized pest control branches, natural resource agencies, and regional bodies when outbreaks cross borders. These agencies are usually the first point of contact for surveillance, reporting, permits, quarantine decisions, and control operations. If the country belongs to one of the FAO locust commissions, those bodies provide a regional framework for early warning, field surveillance, information sharing, and coordinated response, helping countries align monitoring, contingency planning, and control actions across borders.

Organization name	Acronym	Website	Type	Focus	Geographic purview
Department of Crop Science Division at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research		View	Government		India
FAO Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in South-West Asia	SWAC	View	Intergovernmental Organization	Information Hub, Education, Governance	India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran
FAO Desert Locust Control Committee	DLCC	View	Intergovernmental Organization	Development, Management, Governance	Afghanistan, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, [[United Arab Em...
India Locust Warning Organization	LWO		Government	Management, Information Hub, Research	India
Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage, and the Regional Locust cum Integrated Pest Management Center	RLCIPMC	View	Government	Management	India

Resources

Name	Species purview	Year published	Resource link	Descriptive keyword	Language	Geographic purview	Author
Desert locust field handbook		2020	View	Species identification, Management	English	Israel, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, Algeria, Niger, Mauritania, Chad, Mali, Lebanon, Sudan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Somalia, South Sudan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Libya, Kenya, India, Oman, Bahrain, Djibouti, Yemen, Uganda, Egypt, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Palestine, Tanzania, Syria, Iran, Turkey	Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International
Global response plan January–December 2020		2020	View	Emergency response, Outbreaks, Appeal	English	Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq, India, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Uganda	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
India Locust Warning Bulletin				Early warning	English	India	Indian Council of Agricultural Research
The FAO commission for controlling the desert locust in South-West Asia		2014	View	Culture, History, Report	English	India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Highlighted media coverage

Name	Author	Language	Species purview	Substance	Resource link	Year published
‘Make noise and don’t panic’: India tries to ward off locust invasion		English		News article		2020
Climate change favours locust swarms, India increasingly at risk		English		News article		2020
Combatting desert locust in India	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	English		News article		2024
India combats locust attack amid Covid-19 pandemic		English		News article		2020
Intensive control operations reduced locust threat in India, Pak, says FAO		English		News article		2020
To Fight Locusts, Historic Rivals India and Pakistan Team Up		English		News article		2020

Projects

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