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family Romaleidae Pictet & Saussure, 1887

• Common name(s):  lubber grasshoppers
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Herbivorous
• Citations (10):
  • Amédégnato. 1974. Acrida 3(3):195
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1982. In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2:375
  • Amédégnato & Poulain. 1986. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. Nouvelle série 22(4):423  
  • Richman, Lightfoot, C.A. Sutherland & Ferguson. 1993. New Mex. Coop. Extens. Service Handbook 7:18  
  • Otte, D. 1995. Orthoptera Species File 4:20 >> Note: Acridoidea: Romaleidae
  • Braga & A.L. Nunes. 2010. Rev. Colomb. Entomol. 36(2):335-337  
  • Hill, J.G. 2011. Midsouth Entomologist 4(2):39-48  
  • Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama 59 >> Note: diagnosis
  • Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 144-254
  • Song, H. 2018. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, Volume 2 270
• Type genus:  Romalea Serville, 1831; priority for family-group names based on Romalea dates from Rhomalii Pictet & Saussure, 1887.  First use as Romaleidae by Amédégnato, 1974.

• subfamily Bactrophorinae Amédégnato, 1974
• tribe Bactrophorini Amédégnato, 1974
• tribe Ophthalmolampini Descamps, 1977
• tribe Taeniophorini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
• subfamily Romaleinae Pictet & Saussure, 1887
• nomen dubium Xiphophora Saussure, 1859
• tribe Chariacrini Rehn & Grant, 1959
• tribe Elaeochlorini Rehn & Grant, 1959
• tribe Eurostacrini Amédégnato, 1997
• tribe Hisychiini Descamps, 1979
• tribe Leguini Amédégnato & Poulain, 1986
• tribe Phaeopariini Giglio-Tos, 1898
• tribe Procolpini Giglio-Tos, 1898
• tribe Romaleini Pictet & Saussure, 1887
• tribe Tropidacrini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
• tribe Trybliophorini Giglio-Tos, 1898
• genus Quitus Hebard, 1924

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