Pamphagodidae is a small family of grasshoppers in the Orthoptera: suborder Caelifera. Species in this family can be found in southern Africa and Morocco.
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 or brachypterous. 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:
- 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
- Data related to Pamphagodidae at Wikispecies
