African Tree Locust (Anacridium wernerellum)

It is a tree locust in the grasshopper family Acrididae. Taxonomic catalogs list the scientific name as Anacridium wernerellum and credit Karny with describing it in 1907.

It is listed from the Sudanese vegetation zone, the broad savanna belt south of the Sahara. That habitat label is more specific than treating its range as simply all of Africa.

No. Anacridium wernerellum belongs to the tree-locust genus Anacridium, while the desert locust is Schistocerca gregaria. They are different species even though both are grasshoppers.

Anacridium is a genus commonly known as tree locusts or bird grasshoppers, reflecting the group's association with woody vegetation. The name does not mean every individual remains in a tree at all times.