Romaleidae

Romaleidae

Giant South American grasshopper (Tropidacris violaceus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Superfamily:	Acridoidea
Family:	Romaleidae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Subfamilies
Bactrophorinae Romaleinae

Taeniopoda reticulata

Titanacris albipes

The Romaleidae or lubber grasshoppers are a family of grasshoppers.

Taxonomy

The Orthoptera Species File Online database lists the following subfamilies and tribes:^[1]

Subfamily Bactrophorinae
- Tribe Bactrophorini
- Tribe Ophthalmolampini
- Tribe Taeniophorini
Subfamily Romaleinae
- Tribe Eurostacrini
- Tribe Hisychiini
- Tribe Leguini
- Tribe Phaeopariini
- Tribe Procolpini
- Tribe Romaleini
- Tribe Tropidacrini
- Tribe Trybliophorini
- Genus Quitus

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Extant Orthoptera families

Suborder Ensifera

Grylloidea	Gryllidae (crickets) Gryllotalpidae (mole crickets) Mogoplistidae Myrmecophilidae (ant crickets)

Hagloidea	Prophalangopsidae (grigs)

Rhaphidophoroidea	Rhaphidophoridae (cave, camel and spider crickets; cave wetas)

Schizodactyloidea	Schizodactylidae (dune crickets or splay-footed crickets)

Stenopelmatoidea	Anostostomatidae (wetas, king crickets) Cooloolidae (Cooloola monster and relatives) Gryllacrididae (leaf-rolling crickets) Stenopelmatidae (Jerusalem crickets)

Tettigonioidea	Tettigoniidae (katydids, bush-crickets or long-horned grasshoppers)

Acridoidea	Acrididae (grasshoppers, locusts) Catantopidae Charilaidae Dericorythidae Lathiceridae Lentulidae Lithidiidae Ommexechidae Pamphagidae (toad grasshoppers) Pyrgacrididae Romaleidae (lubber grasshoppers) Tristiridae

Eumastacoidea	Chorotypidae Episactidae Eumastacidae (monkey grasshoppers or matchstick grasshoppers) Euschmidtiidae Mastacideidae Morabidae Proscopiidae Thericleidae

Pneumoroidea	Pneumoridae (bladder grasshoppers)

Pyrgomorphoidea	Pyrgomorphidae (gaudy grasshoppers)

Tanaoceroidea	Tanaoceridae

Tetrigoidea	Tetrigidae (grouse locusts, pygmy locusts or groundhoppers)

Trigonopterygoidea	Trigonopterygidae Xyronotidae

Tridactylidea

Tridactyloidea	Cylindrachetidae (sandgropers) Ripipterygidae Tridactylidae (pygmy mole crickets)

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