Pamphagodidae is a small family of
grasshopper
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.
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s in the
Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...
: suborder
Caelifera. Species in this family can be found in
southern Africa and
Morocco.
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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
The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is an organization dedicated to "achieving stability and sense in the scientific naming of animals". Founded in 1895, it currently comprises 26 commissioners from 20 countries.
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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 has two parallel median keels.
Genera
, genera and species in the family Pamphagodidae include:[
*'' 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
External links
Images of ''Pamphagodes riffensis'' at acrinwafrica.mnhn.fr
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Caelifera
Orthoptera families