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  subfamily Romaleinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
tribe Romaleini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
genus Romalea Serville, 1831

species Romalea microptera (Beauvois, 1817)

• Nomenclatural details:   Nomen protectum (Nomen oblitum is reticulatus)
• Images: (10) See all images
  • female
  • labels (unspecified type of Dictyophorus reticulatus) ; specimen
  • male, dorsal view (unspecified type of Dictyophorus reticulatus); specimen
• Distribution:
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• Specimen data are available.
• Citations (20):
  • Beauvois. 1817. 146 >> Acridium micropterum
  • Serville. 1831. Ann. Sci. nat. Paris 22(86):280  
  • Pictet & Saussure. 1887. Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Gesellsch. 7(9):347 >> Note: Beauvois 1805 p. 146 >> Dictyophorus micropterus  
  • Scudder, S.H. 1901. Occ. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 6:9 >> Acridium micropterum  
  • Bruner, L. 1907. Biologia Centrali-Americana 2:231 >> Dictyophorus  
  • Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2):369  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1912. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 64(2):256 >> Romalea microptera  
  • Roberts. 1941. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 93:220, 239 >> Note: internal genitalia  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & H.J. Grant Jr. 1959. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 111:249 >> Note: Revision
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & H.J. Grant Jr. 1961. Monographs Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 12:233
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1980. Entomol. News 91(4):139 >> Note: publication date 1817 not 1805
  • Jones, J.C. 1981. The anatomy of a grasshopper (Romalea microptera) >> Romalea microptera
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1983. Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab. 13(2,iv):699 >> Note: As junior syn of guttata
  • Otte, D. 1995. Orthoptera Species File 4:51 >> Romalea microptera
  • Eades. 2000. Jour. Orth. Res. 9:204 >> Note: Classification; Romaleinae
  • Capinera, Scherer & Squitier. 2001. Grasshoppers of Florida 126 >> Note: Profile >> Romalea microptera  
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 149, Plate 32 >> Romalea microptera
  • Helms, Booth, J. Rivera, Siegler, Wuellner & Whitman. 2003. Jour. Orth. Res. 12(2):135-140 >> Romalea microptera
  • Mefferd, Hatch, Burries & Whitman. 2005. Jour. Orth. Res. 14(1):31-32 >> Note: ovulation-oviposition interval >> Romalea microptera
  • Stauffer & Whitman. 2007. Jour. Orth. Res. 16(1):103-114 >> Romalea microptera
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Southeastern U.S.A., South Carolina
  • Kind of type:  unspecified primary type
  • Sex of type:  female

• synonym gigantea Burmeister, 1838
• synonym gloveri Kirby, 1910
• synonym guttata (Stoll, 1813)
• synonym marci Serville, 1838
• synonym reticulatus (Thunberg, 1815)