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the web of life in southern Africa

Subfamily: Acridinae

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Ecdysozoa > Panarthropoda > Tritocerebra > Phylum: Arthopoda > Mandibulata > Atelocerata > Panhexapoda > Hexapoda > Insecta (insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Polyneoptera > Anartioptera > Orthopterida > Orthoptera > Caelifera (grasshoppers and locusts) > Acrididea > Acridomorpha > Acridoidea > Family: Acrididae

Worldwide distribution except polar regions. Sixteen genera and 39 species are native to southern Africa.

Genera native to southern Africa

List from Orthoptera Species File.

Acrida

Forty-one species, with distribution including Africa, Europe, and Asia through to Australia. Eight species native to southern Africa.

Anaeolopus

One species: Anaeolopus dorsalis, endemic to southern Africa.

Brachyacrida

One species: Brachyacrida distanti, endemic to southern Africa.

 

Cannula

Three species, distributed through Africa south of the Sahara. Cannula gracilis is native to southern Africa.

Coryphosima

Ten species, distributed through Africa south of the Sahara. Two species native to southern Africa: Coryphosima stenoptera and Coryphosima vumbaensis.

Duronia

Three species, distributed through Africa south of the Sahara. Two species native to southern Africa: Duronia chloronota and Duronia curta.

Gymnobothroides

Five species, distributed through Africa south of the Sahara. One species, Gymnobothroides hemipterus, native to southern Africa.

 

Keya

One species, Keya capicola, endemic to southern Africa.

Machaeridia

Two species, native to Africa, with one of them, Machaeridia conspersa, occurring in southern Africa.

Odontomelus

Thirty-five species, native to Africa south of the Sahara, with five species occurring in southern Africa.

Orthochtha

Twenty-six species, distributed in Africa, India and the Malay Peninsula. Six species are native to southern Africa.

Parga

Eleven species, native to Africa. Two species occur in southern Africa: Parga cyanoptera and Parga xanthoptera.

Truxalis

Twenty-three species, distributed in Africa, southern Europe, and Asia. One species, Truxalis burtti, is native to southern Africa.

Truxaloides

Eight species, native to Africa. Four species are native to southern Africa.

Weenenia

Two species, Weenenia lineata and Weenenia thomasseti, endemic to southern Africa.

Xenocymochtha

One species, Xenocymochtha barkeri, endemic to southern Africa.

 

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