Hayden's Grasshopper

Identity & source status

Scientific name

Derotmema haydenii (Thomas, 1872)

Name authority

(Thomas, 1872)

Common name

Hayden's Grasshopper

Rank

species

Accepted status

accepted

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Acrididae

Genus

Derotmema

Extinction status

Recorded extant

Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: yes. These do not form a complete habitat description.

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
2. kingdomAnimalia
3. phylumArthropoda
4. subphylumHexapoda
5. classInsecta
6. orderOrthoptera Olivier, 1789
7. suborderCaelifera Ander, 1936
8. infraorderAcrididea Targioni-Tozzetti, 1882
9. superfamilyAcridoidea MacLeay, 1821
10. familyAcrididae MacLeay, 1821
11. subfamilyOedipodinae Walker, 1871
12. tribePsinidiini Otte, 1970
13. genusDerotmema Scudder, 1876
14. speciesDerotmema haydenii (Thomas, 1872)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Derotmema. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

Browse 227 records assigned to Acrididae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

1. Thomas, C. (1872) Notes on the saltatorial Orthoptera of the Rocky Mountain regions. In Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories; being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress. Vol. 5, pp. 423–466, 2 pls. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=NgdSAAAAcAAJ Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:34YQD. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.