Family: Tetrigidae
(pygmy grasshoppers)
Life
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Occurs worldwide (except polar regions). Fourteen genera and
twenty species are native to southern Africa.
Genera native to southern Africa
List from
Orthoptera Species
File.
Ascetotettix
One species, Ascetotettix capensis, endemic to southern Africa. |
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Coptotettix
Seventy species, with a distribution that includes Africa, Asia and
Australia. Two species, Coptotettix convexus and Coptotettix
rufipes, are native to southern Africa. |
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Dasyleurotettix
Five species, occurring in Africa and South America. One species,
Dasyleurotettix infaustus, is native to southern Africa. |
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Euparatettix
Seventy-two species, occurring in Africa and Asia. One species,
Euparatettix histricus, is native to southern Africa. |
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Marshallacris
Five species, mainly occurring in Congo but with one species,
Marshallacris africanus, native to Zimbabwe. |
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Morphopoides
Four species, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara and in Madagascar. One
species, Morphopoides folipes, is native to southern Africa. |
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Paratettix
Seventy-one species, with a worldwide distribution (except Antarctica,
northern Europe and northern Asia). Three species are native to southern
Africa. |
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Phloeonotus
An African genus of three species. One species,
Phloeonotus humilis,
is native to southern Africa. |
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Pseudosystolederus
Two species in Madagascar and one, Pseudosystolederus lesnei, in
Mozambique. |
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Tetrix
A worldwide genus of 154 species, with one species, Tetrix dubiosus,
native to southern Africa. |
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Tettiella
An African genus of six species, with three species native to southern
Africa. |
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Tettiellona
An African genus of five species, with one species, Tettiellona
hypsimelathrus, native to southern Africa. |
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Trachytettix
An African genus of four species, with two species, Trachytettix bufo
and Trachytettix scaberrimus, native to southern Africa. |
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Xerophyllum
An African genus of two species, one of which,
Xerophyllum platycorys,
is native to southern Africa. |
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