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family

Pamphagodidae Bolívar, 1884

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type genus of

Nomenclature (31)

  • Pamphagodidae Bolívar, 1884

    type genus Pamphagodes Bolívar, 1878

  • Pamphagodae Bolívar, 1884: 487. (not Latin)

    type genus Pamphagodes Bolívar, 1878

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  • Charilaidae Dirsh, 1953 in International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, 2012
  • Pamphagodidae Bolívar, 1884 in Hemp, Ritchie, Cigliano, Heller, Warchalowska-Sliwa, Grzywacz, Linde, Uluar, Oumarou-Ngoute & Song, 2025: 492.

Nomenclature references (19)

  • Bolívar, I. (1884) Monografía de los pirgomorfinos. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 13, 1–73, 418–500. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54702#page/9/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1916) Orthoptera. Fam. Acrididae. Subfam. Pamphaginae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 170, 40 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105422#page/13/mode/1up
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  • Descamps, M. (1966) Pamphagodes riffensis I. Bolvar, 1878 Charilaidae du Haut Atlas [Ort. Acridoidea]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 71, 113–122. Available at http://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_1966_num_71_5_20871
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1953) Charilainae, a new subfamily of Acrididae (Orthoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 161–173.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1961) A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 10(9), 351–419. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2242565
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1965) The African Genera of Acridoidea. Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London, 579 pp.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1975) Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects. E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon, 1–171 pp.
  • Eades, D.C. & Deem, L.S. (2008) Case 3429. Charilaidae Dirsh, 1953 (Insecta, Orthoptera): proposed precedence over Pamphagodidae I. Bolivar, 1916. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 65(1).
  • Eades, D.C. (1963) Observations on Charilaus and Charilainae (Orthoptera: Pamphagidae). Entomological News, 74, 131–133. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20555#page/165/mode/1up
  • Hemp, C., Ritchie, J.M., Cigliano, M.M., Heller, K.-G., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Grzywacz, B., Linde, J.B., Uluar, O., Oumarou-Ngoute, C. & Song, H. (2025) Out of sight, out of mind? Ixalidiidae, a new family of African forest grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) revealed by molecular phylogenetics and genital morphology. Zoosystema, 47(24), 489–553. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a24
  • International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, I.C.Z.N. (2012) Case 3429. Charilaeidae Dirsh, 1953 (Insecta, Orthoptera): proposed precedence over Pamphagodidae I. Bolivar, 1916 not granted. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 69(4), 297–299.
  • Johnsen, P. (1990) Thericleidae, Charilaidae, Pamphagidae, Pyrgomorphidae, Pauliniidae, Acrididae: Hemiacridinae, Tropidopolinae, Coptacridinae, Calliptaminae, Euryphyminae, Eyprepocnemidinae. The Acridoidea of Botswana, 1, 1–129.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1956) In Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 833 pp.
  • Johnston, H.B. (1968) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers: Vol. Suppl. The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 445 pp.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1982) Orthoptera. In Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Vol. 2, pp. 352–379.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 3. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] B Pamphagoidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 241 pp.
  • Sharov, A.G. (1968) Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologieskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 118, 1–216.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1966) In Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology. Cambridge University Press, London. Vol. 1, 481 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
family1056
genus4015
species5049