Pamphagodidae
Family of grasshoppers
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Pamphagodidae[2] is a small family of grasshoppers in the Orthoptera: suborder Caelifera. Species in this family can be found in southern Africa and Morocco.[1]
| Pamphagodidae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Superfamily: | Acridoidea |
| Family: | Pamphagodidae Bolívar, 1884 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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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 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[update], 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)
