Pamphagodidae is a small family of grasshoppers in the Orthoptera: suborder

Caelifera The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects. They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers (Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets ( Tridactyloidea). ...

. Species in this family can be found in

southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number o ...

and

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...

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. Members of this 'basal' grasshopper family tend to be large grasshoppers and are typically

apterous Aptery is the anatomical condition of an animal completely lacking any kind of wings. An animal with this condition is said to be apterous. Most animal species belong to and are phylogenetic descendants of apterous taxa. These groups are said to ...

or brachypterous.Uvarov B (1966) ''Grasshoppers and Locusts'' vol. 1. Cambridge University Press A common feature for these genera is that the

pronotum The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum ( dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on e ...

has two parallel median keels.

Genera

, genera and species in the family Pamphagodidae include: *''

Charilaus Charilaus ( grc-gre, Χαρίλαος), also spelled Charilaos, Charillos, or Charillus, was a king of Sparta in the middle of the 8th century BC. He was probably the first historical king of the Eurypontid dynasty. Life and reign Sparta was a d ...

'' 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

External links

Images of ''Pamphagodes riffensis'' at acrinwafrica.mnhn.fr
* {{Taxonbar, from1=Q60509159, from2=Q2957762 Caelifera Orthoptera families