Subfamilies

Grasshopper Species Fact Sheets

Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 912
Species Fact Sheets
by Robert E. Pfadt 

Alphabetical Listing by Subfamily

Different subfamilies are each identified by different colors below with individual species listed alphabetically by common name within each subfamily. Subfamilies include:

Melanoplinae | Gomphocerinae | Oedipodinae | Romaleidae, Tribe Brachystolini | Tettigoniidae, subfamily Decticinae

 

Subfamily: Melanoplinae

• Alpine grasshopper | Melanoplus alpinus Scudder
• Bruner spurthroated grasshopper | Melanoplus bruneri Scudder
• Cudweed grasshopper | Hypochlora alba (Dodge)
• Dawson grasshopper | Melanoplus dawsoni (Scudder)
• Devastating grasshopper | Melanoplus devastator Scudder
• Differential grasshopper | Melanoplus differentialis (Thomas)
• Flabellate grasshopper | Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas)
• Gladston grasshopper | Melanoplus gladstoni Scudder
• Keeler grasshopper | Melanoplus keeleri (Thomas)
• Kennicott grasshopper | Melanoplus kennicotti (Scudder)
• Lakin grasshopper | Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder)
• Largeheaded grasshopper | Phoetaliotes nebrascensis (Thomas)
• Little spurthroated grasshopper | Melanoplus infantilis Scudder
• Migratory grasshopper | Melanoplus sanguinipes (Fabricius)
• Narrowwinged sand grasshopper | Melanoplus angustipennis (Dodge)
• Nevada sage grasshopper |  Melanoplus rugglesi Gurney
• Northern grasshopper | Melanoplus borealis (Fieber)
• Packard grasshopper | Melanoplus packardii Scudder
• Pasture grasshopper | Melanoplus confusus Scudder
• Redlegged grasshopper | Melanoplus femurrubrum (DeGeer)
• Russianthistle grasshopper | Aeoloplides turnbulli (Thomas)
• Sagebrush grasshopper | Melanoplus bowditchi Scudder
• Snakeweed grasshopper | Hesperotettix viridis (Thomas)
• Striped sand grasshopper | Melanoplus foedus Scudder
• Twostriped grasshopper | Melanoplus bivittatus (Say)
• Valley grasshopper | Oedaleonotus enigma (Scudder) 

 

Subfamily: Gomphocerinae

• Bigheaded grasshopper | Aulocara elliotti (Thomas)
• Brownspotted grasshopper | Psoloessa delicatula (Scudder)
• Bruner slantfaced grasshopper | Bruneria brunnea (Thomas)
• Clubhorned grasshopper | Aeropedellus clavatus (Thomas)
• Crenulatewinged grasshopper | Cordillacris crenulata (Bruner)
• Ebony grasshopper | Boopedon nubilum (Say)
• Fourspotted grasshopper | Phlibostroma quadrimaculatum (Thomas)
• Meadow grasshopper | Chorthippus curtipennis (Harris)
• Obscure grasshopper | Opeia obscura (Thomas)
• Slantfaced pasture grasshopper |  Orphulella speciosa (Scudder)
• Spottedwinged grasshopper | Cordillacris occipitalis (Thomas)
• Striped grasshopper | Amphitornus coloradus (Thomas)
• Twostriped slantfaced grasshopper | Mermiria bivittata (Serville)
• Velvetstriped grasshopper | Eritettix simplex (Scudder)
• Whitecrossed grasshopper | Aulocara femoratum Scudder
• Whitewhiskered grasshopper | Ageneotettix deorum (Scudder) 

 

Subfamily: Oedipodinae

• Bluelegged grasshopper | Metator pardalinus (Saussure)
• Carolina grasshopper | Dissosteira carolina (Linnaeus)
• Clearwinged grasshopper | Camnula pellucida (Scudder)
• Dusky grasshopper | Encoptolophus costalis (Scudder)
• Finned grasshopper | Trachyrhachys aspera Scudder
• Greenstriped grasshopper | Chortophaga viridifasciata (DeGeer)
• Hayden grasshopper | Derotmema haydeni (Thomas)
• High plains grasshopper |  Dissosteira longipennis (Thomas)
• Kiowa grasshopper | Trachyrhachys kiowa (Thomas)
• Mottled sand grasshopper | Spharagemon collare (Scudder)
• Orangelegged grasshopper | Spharagemon equale (Say)
• Pallidwinged grasshopper | Trimerotropis pallidipennis (Burmeister)
• Redshanked grasshopper | Xanthippus corallipes (Haldeman)
• Redwinged grasshopper | Arphia pseudonietana (Thomas)
• Specklewinged grasshopper | Arphia conspersa Scudder
• Threebanded grasshopper | Hadrotettix trifasciatus (Say)

 

Subfamily: Romaleidae, Tribe Brachystolini

• Plains lubber grasshopper | Brachystola magna (Girard)

 

Subfamily: Tettigoniidae, subfamily Decticinae

• Mormon Cricket | Anabrus simplex Haldeman