Pamphagodidae

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Pamphagodidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Superfamily: Acridoidea
Family: Pamphagodidae
Bolívar, 1884
Synonyms[1]
  • Charilaidae Dirsh, 1953
  • Charilainae Dirsh, 1953
  • Pamphagodae Bolívar, 1884
  • Pamphagodes Bolívar, 1884
  • Pamphagodinae Bolívar, 1884

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]

Placement and description

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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

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

References

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  1. ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  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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  • Images of Pamphagodes riffensis at acrinwafrica.mnhn.fr
  • File:Wikispecies-logo.svg Data related to Pamphagodidae at Wikispecies

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