Taxonomic Details for Romalea microptera
Systematic Resumé: |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Subkingdom | Bilateria |
Infrakingdom | Protostomia |
Superphylum | Ecdysozoa |
Phylum | Arthropoda |
Subphylum | Hexapoda |
Class | Insecta |
Subclass | Pterygota |
Infraclass | Neoptera |
Superorder | Polyneoptera |
Order | Orthoptera |
Suborder | Caelifera |
Infraorder | Acrididea |
Superfamily | Acridoidea |
Family | Romaleidae |
Subfamily | Romaleinae |
Genus | Romalea |
Species | Romalea microptera |
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Synonym(s): |
Romalea guttatus, Romalea guttata |
Authority: |
(Beauvois, 1817) |
ITIS TSN: |
650546 (click on the taxonomic serial number to view the ITIS web page) |
Habitats: |
Salinity Zone: Fresh water |
GCE Contact: |
Steven C. Pennings, University of Houston, Houston, Texas |
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GCE Data Sets: |
INS-GCEM-2208 (Fall 2022 grasshopper monitoring -- mid-marsh grasshopper abundance and species diversity at eight GCE LTER sampling sites)
INS-GCEM-2108 (Fall 2021 grasshopper monitoring -- mid-marsh grasshopper abundance and species diversity at eight GCE LTER sampling sites)
INS-GCEM-2008 (Fall 2020 grasshopper monitoring -- mid-marsh grasshopper abundance and species diversity at eight GCE LTER sampling sites)
INS-GCEM-1908 (Fall 2019 grasshopper monitoring -- mid-marsh grasshopper abundance and species diversity at eight GCE LTER sampling sites)
INS-GCED-1612 (Grasshopper counts and feeding damage at the GCE-LTER Seawater Addition Long-Term Experiment (SALTEx) in 2016)
(view all 25 relevant data sets in the GCE Data Catalog) |

Romalea guttatus (very broad herbivorous diet). Photo by Steven Pennings.

Romalea are common in tidal freshwater marshes in the GCE domain. Photo Steve Pennings.
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