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Pamphagodidae

Pamphagodidae is a small family of grasshoppers in the Orthoptera: suborder Caelifera. Species in this family can be found in southern Africa and Morocco.

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Pamphagodidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Superfamily: Acridoidea
Family: Pamphagodidae
Bolívar, 1884
Synonyms1
  • Charilaidae Dirsh, 1953
  • Charilainae Dirsh, 1953
  • Pamphagodae Bolívar, 1884
  • Pamphagodes Bolívar, 1884
  • Pamphagodinae Bolívar, 1884

Pamphagodidae2 is a small family of grasshoppers in the Orthoptera: suborder Caelifera. Species in this family can be found in southern Africa and Morocco.1

Placement and description

The oldest published name for this group is Pamphagodidae. However, the name Charilaidae became widely used, until a review by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature determined the valid name.3

Members of this 'basal' grasshopper family tend to be large grasshoppers and are typically apterous or brachypterous.4 A common feature for these genera is that the pronotum has two parallel median keels.

Genera

As of January 2021, genera and species in the family Pamphagodidae include:1

  • Charilaus Stål, 1875
    • Charilaus carinatus Stål, 1875
  • Hemicharilaus Dirsh, 1953
    • Hemicharilaus brunneri (Saussure, 1899)
    • Hemicharilaus monomorphus (Uvarov, 1929)
  • Pamphagodes Bolívar, 1878
    • Pamphagodes riffensis Bolívar, 1878
  • Paracharilaus Dirsh, 1961
    • Paracharilaus curvicollis (Karny, 1910)
References

References

  1. Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "family Pamphagodidae Bolívar, 1884". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  2. Bolívar I (1884) An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. 13: 487.
  3. ICZN, “OPINION 2309 (Case 3429) CHARILAIDAE Dirsh, 1953 (Insecta, Orthoptera): proposed precedence over PAMPHAGODIDAE I. Bolívar, 1916 not granted”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 297-299, 2012.
  4. Uvarov B (1966) Grasshoppers and Locusts vol. 1. Cambridge University Press
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