Romalea microptera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1817)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Beauvois Ambroise Marie François Joseph (1817) Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en Amerique dans les royaumes d'Oware à Saint–Domingue et dans les Etats–Unis pendant les années 1786–1797. 276 pp. 90 pl.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Romaleidae
- genus
- Romalea
- species
- Romalea microptera
Name
- Synonyms
- Acridium micropterum Palisot de Beauvois, 1817
- Dictyophorus guttatus (Stoll, 1813)
- Dictyophorus marci
- Dictyophorus micropterus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1817)
- Dictyophorus reticulatus Thunberg, 1815
- Gryllus guttatus Stoll, 1813
- Rhomalea gigantea Burmeister, 1838
- Rhomalea marci Serville, 1838
- Rhomalea micropterum (Palisot de Beauvois, 1817)
- Romalea gloveri Kirby, 1910
- Romalea guttata (Stoll, 1813)
- Romalea marci Serville, 1838
- Homonyms
- Romalea microptera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1817)
- Common names
- Eastern Lubber Grasshopper in English
- Eastern Lubber Grasshopper in English
Bibliographic References
- Bruner, L. 1907. Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana 2:230
- Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 149, Plate 32
- Capinera, Scherer & Squitier. 2001. Grasshoppers of Florida, University of Florida Press, Gainesville 126
- Capinera. 2008. Eastern Lubber Grasshopper, Romalea microptera (Beauvois) (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Encyclopedia of Entomology 5:1268-1270
- Charpentier. 1845. Orthoptera descripta et depicta [1841-1845], L. Woss, Lipsiae [Leipzig] Tab. 49
- Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):394
- Eades. 2000. Evolutionary relationships of phallic structures of Acridomorpha (Orthoptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 9:204
- Hebard. 1916. Spring Orthoptera found on the islands in the vicinity of Charlotte harbour, Florida. Entomological News (Entomol. News) 27(1):19
- Helms, C.M. Booth, J. Rivera, Siegler, Wuellner & Whitman. 2003. Lubber grasshoppers, Romalea microptera (Beauvois), orient to plant odors in a wind tunnel. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 12(2):135-140
- Jones, J.C. 1981. The anatomy of a grasshopper (Romalea microptera), Thomas, Springfield
- Kevan, D.K.M. 1980. Romalea guttata (Houttuyn), name change for well-known "eastern lubber grasshopper" (Orthoptera: Romaleidae). Entomological News (Entomol. News) 91(4):139
- Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae), British Museum (Natural History), London 3(2):369
- Mefferd, Hatch, Burries & Whitman. 2005. Plasticity in the length of the ovulation-oviposition interval in the lubber grasshopper Romalea microptera. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 14(1):31-32
- Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:51
- Otte, Daniel, 1995: Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File 4. 518.
- Palisot de Beauvois. 1817. Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en Amerique dans les royaumes d'Oware à Saint–Domingue et dans les Etats–Unis pendant les années 1786–1797 146
- Pictet & Saussure. 1887. Catalogue d'Acridiens. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft (Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Gesellsch.) 7(9):347
- Rehn, J.A.G. & H.J. Grant Jr. 1959. A review of the Romaleinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) found in America north of Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 111:249
- Rehn, J.A.G. & H.J. Grant Jr. 1961. A monograph of the Orthoptera of North America (north of Mexico). Volume 1. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Monographs Acad. nat. Sci. Philad.) 12:233
- Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1912. On the Orthoptera found on the Florida Keys and in extreme southern Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 64(2):256