Romaleinae

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Romaleinae
Brachystola magna P1310486a.jpg
Brachystola magna
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Romaleidae
Subfamily: Romaleinae
Pictet & Saussure, 1887
Tribes
  • Rehn & Grant, 1959
  • Rehn & Grant, 1959
  • Amédégnato, 1997
  • Descamps, 1979
  • Leguini Amédégnato & Poulain, 1986
  • Phaeopariini Giglio-Tos, 1898
  • Giglio-Tos, 1898
  • Romaleini Pictet & Saussure, 1887
  • Tropidacrini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
  • Giglio-Tos, 1898

Romaleinae is a subfamily of lubber grasshoppers in the family Romaleidae, found in North and South America. There are more than 60 genera and 260 described species in Romaleinae.[1][2][3]

Tribes and genera[]

The following tribes and genera belong to the subfamily Romaleinae:

Tribes A-H[]

Taeniopoda reticulata
museum specimens of Taeniopoda and others
  • Descamps, 1979
  • Descamps, 1979
  • Walker, 1870
  • Scudder, 1875
  • Descamps, 1978
  • Rehn, 1940
  • Walker, 1870
  • Rehn, 1905
  • Descamps, 1979
  • Rehn, 1909
  • Carbonell & Campos-Seabra, 1988
  • Stål, 1861
  • Rosas Costa, 1957
  • Descamps, 1978
  • Liebermann, 1958
  • Stål, 1878
  • Amédégnato & Poulain, 1994
  • Descamps, 1979
  • Stål, 1878
  • Carbonell, 2002
  • Descamps, 1978
  • Descamps, 1979
  • Roberts & Carbonell, 1992

Leguini[]

Auth: Amédégnato & Poulain, 1986

  1. Amédégnato & Poulain, 1986
  2. Legua Walker, 1870
  3. Uvarov, 1940

Phaeopariini[]

Auth: Giglio-Tos, 1898

  1. Abila Stål, 1878
  2. Carbonell, 2002
  3. Stål, 1876
  4. Costarica Koçak & Kemal, 2008
  5. Gerstaecker, 1889
  6. Amédégnato & Poulain, 1994
  7. Jago, 1980
  8. Stål, 1873
  9. Carbonell, 2002
  10. Amédégnato & Descamps, 1978
  11. Carbonell, 2002

Procolpini[]

Aeolacris caternaulti

Auth: Giglio-Tos, 1898

subtribe Prionolophina Rehn & Grant, 1959
  1. Stål, 1878
  2. Stål, 1873
  3. Pictet & Saussure, 1887
  4. Rehn, 1909
  5. Stål, 1873
  6. Bolívar, 1909
  7. Gistel, 1848
subtribe Procolpina Giglio-Tos, 1898
  1. Scudder, 1875
  2. Stål, 1875
  3. Stål, 1873
  4. Scudder, 1875
  5. Rehn, 1955

Romaleini[]

Auth: Pictet & Saussure, 1887

  1. Stål, 1873
  2. Stål, 1878
  3. Scudder, 1875
  4. Brachystola Scudder, 1876 (grassland lubbers)
  5. Rehn, 1909
  6. Chromacris Walker, 1870
  7. Rehn, 1909
  8. Carbonell & Campos-Seabra, 1988
  9. Stål, 1861
  10. Dracotettix Bruner, 1889 (dragon lubbers)
  11. Rosas Costa, 1957
  12. Liebermann, 1958
  13. Carbonell & Campos-Seabra, 1988
  14. Bruner, 1907
  15. Phrynotettix Glover, 1872 (toad lubbers)
  16. Carbonell, 1984
  17. Romalea Serville, 1831 (lubber grasshopper)
  18. Spaniacris Hebard, 1937
  19. Taeniopoda Stål, 1873
  20. Bolívar, 1881
  21. Tytthotyle Scudder, 1897
  22. Bruner, 1913
  23. Stål, 1873

Tropidacrini[]

Tropidacris cristata

Auth: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

  1. Titanacris Scudder, 1869
  2. Tropidacris Scudder, 1869

Trybliophorini[]

Auth: Giglio-Tos, 1898

  • Serville, 1831
tribe not placed
  • Quitus Hebard, 1924

References[]

  1. ^ "Romaleinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  2. ^ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "subfamily Romaleinae Pictet & Saussure, 1887". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-06-16.

Further reading[]

  • Capinera, J. L; Scott, R. D.; Walker, T. J. (2004). Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8948-8.
  • Otte, Daniel (1997). Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia (eds.). Orthoptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Vol. 4: Non–Holometabolous Orders. Entomological Information Services. pp. 581–634. ISBN 978-1-889002-04-0.

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