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family

Romaleidae Pictet & Saussure, 1887

lubber grasshoppers

Type

Romalea Serville, 1831 type genus of Romaleidae Pictet & Saussure, 1887

Nomenclature (12)

  • Romaleidae Pictet & Saussure, 1887

    type genus Romalea Serville, 1831

  • Romaleidae Pictet & Saussure, 1887 in Amédégnato, 1974: 195.
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  • Romaleidae Pictet & Saussure, 1887 in Song, 2018: 270.
  • Romaleidae Pictet & Saussure, 1887 in Hemp, Ritchie, Cigliano, Heller, Warchalowska-Sliwa, Grzywacz, Linde, Uluar, Oumarou-Ngoute & Song, 2025: 544.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Amédégnato, C. & Poulain, S. (1986) Diagnoses et signalisations de Romaleidae arboricoles amazoniens (Orthoptera: Acrididea). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 22(4), 423–455. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6149714s/f432.item
  • Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
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  • Braga, C.E. & Nunes, A.L. (2010) Ampliación de la distribución de saltamontes romaleidos (Orthoptera) de la Colección del Museo Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Revista Colombiana de Entomología, 36(2), 335–337. Available at http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-04882010000200027&lang=pt
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • Hemp, C., Ritchie, J.M., Cigliano, M.M., Heller, K.-G., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Grzywacz, B., Linde, J.B., Uluar, O., Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Song, H. (2025) Out of sight, out of mind? Ixalidiidae, a new family of African forest grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) revealed by molecular phylogenetics and genital morphology. Zoosystema, 47(24), 489–553. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a24
  • Hill, J.V.G. (2011) An annotated list of the grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Romaleidae) of the southeastern United States. Midsouth Entomologist, 4(2), 39–48. Available at http://midsouthentomologist.org.msstate.edu/pdfs/Vol4_2/Vol4_2_002.pdf
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1982) Orthoptera. In Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Vol. 2, pp. 352–379.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Pictet, A. & de Saussure, H. (1887) Catalogue d'Acridiens. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 7(9), 331–376. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39741
  • Richman, D.B., Lightfoot, D.C., Sutherland, C.A. & Ferguson, J.W.H. (1993) A manual of the grasshoppers of New Mexico, Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae. New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service Handbook, 7, 1–112. Available at http://nmsu.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/AgCircs/id/63174
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
  • Song, H. (2018) 10 Biodiversity of Orthoptera. In Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, Volume 2. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 245–279 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
family1001
subfamily2002
tribe1303245
subtribe60612
infratribe3003
genus112058170
superspecies170017
species4860403889
subspecies570104161