Traveler grasshopper (Rhammatocerus viatorius)

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Rhammatocerus viatorius
Other common names
Traveller grasshopper
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Gomphocerinae
Tribe:	Scyllinini
Genus:	Rhammatocerus
Scientific name
Rhammatocerus viatorius (Saussure, 1861)
Geography
Native countries:
Belize Guatemala Honduras Colombia El Salvador Mexico Nicaragua United States

The Traveler grasshopper (Rhammatocerus viatorius) is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae.

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Rhammatocerus viatorius
Other common names
Traveller grasshopper
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Gomphocerinae
Tribe:	Scyllinini
Genus:	Rhammatocerus
Scientific name
Rhammatocerus viatorius (Saussure, 1861)
Geography
Native countries:
Belize Guatemala Honduras Colombia El Salvador Mexico Nicaragua United States

The Traveler grasshopper (Rhammatocerus viatorius) is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae.

This page is incomplete and lacking information and resources! If you have expertise or materials on this topic that you are willing to contribute, please feel free to add it here using the Edit button above or get in touch with an administrator to help.

Taxonomy

For full nomenclature and taxonomic details of this taxon, see Orthoptera Species File

Subspecies

• Rhammatocerus viatorius excelsus (Bruner, 1904)
• Rhammatocerus viatorius viatorius (Saussure, 1861)

Identification

Identification resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
UofA School & Home Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Newsletter Newsletter Grasshoppers	University of Arizona,Dawn H. Gouge, Tom J. Getts, Tim W. Stock, John F. Connett and Micah Gay	2023		View URL
The grasshoppers and other orthoptera of Arizona	University of Arizona,E. Ball, E. R. Tinkham, Robert Flock and C. T. Vorhies	1942		View URL

Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceRhammatocerus viatorius

Habitat

Geophilous

Flight

Strong flier

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
UofA School & Home Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Newsletter Newsletter Grasshoppers	University of Arizona,Dawn H. Gouge, Tom J. Getts, Tim W. Stock, John F. Connett and Micah Gay	2023		View URL
The grasshoppers and other orthoptera of Arizona	University of Arizona,E. Ball, E. R. Tinkham, Robert Flock and C. T. Vorhies	1942		View URL

Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species.

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Carlos Gerardo Velazco-Macías — 4 specimens collected
• Martin Murillo — 1 specimen collected
• Liliana Gaytan-Cruz — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Tyler Grant — 4 specimens identified
• Carlos Gerardo Velazco-Macías — 3 specimens identified
• Liliana Gaytan-Cruz — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

BugGuideCatalogue of LifeCONABIOEncyclopedia of LifeGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistIRMNGITIS TSNNatureServe ExplorerNCBI taxonomyOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)UMLS CUI