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Pyrgomorphidae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

of grasshopper

Grasshopper

The grasshopper is an insect of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish it from bush crickets or katydids, it is sometimes referred to as the short-horned grasshopper...

s in the order Orthoptera

Orthoptera

Orthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.Many insects in this order produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps...

commonly known as the gaudy grasshoppers. It is the only family in the superfamily Pyrgomorphoidea, and contains 29 genera and at least 70 species and subspecies.

Families and genera

Incomplete list of sub-families, tribes, genera and species:

Sub-family Orthacridinae or Ortacrinae
Sub-family Pyrgomorphinae
- Tribe Atractomorphini
  - Genus Atractomorpha
    Atractomorpha (Pyrgomorphidae)
    Atractomorpha is a genus in the Pyrgomorphidae, a family of grasshoppers.The genus name is derived from the Greek and means something like "spindle-shaped" or "arrow-shaped"...
    - Atractomorpha australis
    - Atractomorpha psittacina
  - Sub-tribe Occidentosphenina
    - Genus Occidentosphena
      - Occidentosphena ruandensis
      - Occidentosphena uvarovi
- Tribe Desmopterini
  - Genus Desmoptera
    - Desmoptera truncatipennis
- Tribe Dictyophorini
  - Genus Camoensia
  - Genus Dictyophorus
  - Genus Loveridgacris
  - Genus Maura
  - Genus Parapetasia
- Tribe Monistriini
  - Genus Greyacris
    - Greyacris profundesulcata
  - Genus Monistria
    - Monistria cicatricosa
    - Monistria concinna
    - Monistria consobrina
    - Monistria discrepans
    - Monistria latevittata
    - Monistria maculicornis
    - Monistria pavoninae
    - Monistria picta
    - Monistria pustulifera
    - Monistria sulcata
  - Genus Parastria
    - Parastria reticulata
  - Genus Pileolum
    - Pileolum kirbyi
  - Genus Yeelanna; see place: Yeelanna
    - Yeelanna argus
    - Yeelanna pavonina
- Tribe Petasidini
  - Genus Petasida
    - Petasida ephippigera
      Petasida ephippigera
      Petasida ephippigera is a pyrgomorph native to tropical northern Australia in the order Orthoptera . The species is named after Ludwig Leichhardt....
      
      (Leichardt's grasshopper)
  - Genus Scutillya
    - Scutillya verrucosa (Giant spotted pyrgomorph)
- Tribe Phymateini
  - Genus Phymateus
    Phymateus
    Phymateus is a genus of grasshoppers belonging to the Pyrgomorphidae family.-Description:Species of the genus Phymateus are African locusts about long. Some species at maturity are capable of long migratory flights. They raise and rustle wings when disturbed and may secrete a noxious fluid from...
- Tribe Psednurini
  - Genus Propsednura
    - Propsednura eyrei
    - Propsednura peninsularis
  - Genus Psedna
    - Psedna nana
  - Genus Psednura
    - Psednura longicornis
    - Psednura musgravei
    - Psednura pedestris
- Tribe Pyrgomorphini
  - Sub-tribe Arbusculina
  - Sub-tribe Geloiodina
  - Sub-tribe Parasphenina
  - Sub-tribe Pyrgomorphina

External links

Pyrgomorphoidea at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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