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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Pyrgomorpha

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

Twenty species, with a distribution that includes Africa, southern Europe and Asia. Three 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.

Pyrgomorpha granulata

Pyrgomorpha minuta

Pyrgomorpha rugosus

 

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