Orthoptera14 species

Family Lubber Grasshoppers (Romaleidae)

Romaleidae is a family in the order Orthoptera. Browse 14 named species recorded in this family, or open an individual profile for its available identification and natural-history information.

Species in Romaleidae (14)

Plains Lubber Grasshopper

Brachystola magna

Identification: Large, colorful grasshopper. Flightless. On the central and southern Great Plains, individuals reach their largest size, and are more often (especially females) predominantly green. In the Southwest they tend to be smaller, more varie

Robust Toad Lubber

Phrynotettix robustus

Identification: Stocky broad-bodied grasshoppers, very "pebble-like", with very short wings (much shorter in females) behind the large shield-like pronotum. Color is usually pale whitish, tan, or grayish, often with scattered darker spots or mottlin

Horse Lubber

Romalea eques

Identification: Large and shiny, mostly black. Tegmina (front wings) with yellow veins and with variable contrasting yellow to orange stripes on body, legs and head. Face sometimes mostly yellow or orange. Antennae yellow to red-orange with black rin

Spanistic Desert Grasshopper

Spaniacris deserticola

Identification: Adults with slender body, camouflage patterned with stripes of mostly browns and grays; long slender limbs; head with top held significantly higher than top of thorax, with eyes large and somewhat bulging; pronotum short, saddle-shape