PamphagodidaeBolívar I (1884) An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. 13: 487. is a small family of grasshoppers in the Orthoptera: suborder Caelifera. Species in this family can be found in southern Africa and Morocco.
Placement and description The oldest published name for this group is Pamphagodidae. However, the name Charilaidae became widely used, until a review by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature determined the valid name.
Members of this 'basal' grasshopper family tend to be large grasshoppers and are typically apterous or brachypterous.Uvarov B (1966) Grasshoppers and Locusts vol. 1. Cambridge University Press A common feature for these genera is that the pronotum has two parallel median keels.
Genera , genera and species in the family Pamphagodidae include: Charilaus Stål, 1875 Charilaus carinatus Stål, 1875 Hemicharilaus Dirsh, 1953 Hemicharilaus brunneri (Saussure, 1899) Hemicharilaus monomorphus (Uvarov, 1929) Pamphagodes Bolívar, 1878 Pamphagodes riffensis Bolívar, 1878 Paracharilaus Dirsh, 1961 Paracharilaus curvicollis (Karny, 1910)
References
External links Images of Pamphagodes riffensis at acrinwafrica.mnhn.fr