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Genus: Phymateus
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
> Acrididea > Acridomorpha > Pyrgomorphoidea > Family:
Pyrgomorphidae
Twelve species, with a distribution that includes Africa, Madagascar and
China. Five species are native to southern Africa.
Genera native to southern Africa
List from
Orthoptera Species
File. These genera all fall in the broadly distributed subfamily
Pyrgomorphinae. The other subfamily, Orthacridinae, is more patchily distributed
and does not occur in the subregion.
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