romaleid

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Noun

romaleid (plural romaleids)

  1. (entomology) Any member of the Romaleidae (lubber grasshoppers).
    • 2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies, page 88:
      Like many New World romaleids, these insects, which are called bush locusts (Bishop 1940; Kevan 1949), are often social in the nymphal or hopper stage and become more solitary as adults.
    • 2009, Jorg D. Hardege, Chemical Ecology, page 142:
      Females of the romaleid grasshopper Romalea guttata generate a defensive secretion in glands surrounding the metathoracic tracheal trunks and the secretion is stored in the tracheal lumina.
    • 2012, Juan Cardona, Grasshoppers of Colombia - A photo Guide:
      There are several species and subespecies of the neotropical romaleid grasshopper genus Chromacris (which means colored grasshoppers), which, when adults, all follow the green-yellow blue pattern as in this male of Chromacris psittaccus pacificus, but they can be told apart by subtle differences in the spotting and striped pattern.