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the web of life in southern Africa

Family: Lentulidae

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 > Acridoidea

Endemic to Africa south of the Sahara, mainly southern Africa, where there are 26 genera and 58 species, most of which are endemic to this subregion.

Genera native to southern Africa

List from Orthoptera Species File.

Subfamily: Lentulinae

 

 

 

Bacteracris

One species, Bacteracris antennata, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Basutacris

Four species, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Betiscoides

Three species, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Devylderia

Four species, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Eremidium

Eleven species, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Gymnidium

Two species: Gymnidium cuneatum and Gymnidium turbinatum, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Helwigacris

One species: Helwigacris insolita, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

 

Karruia

Two species: Karruia gracilis and Karruia paradoxa, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Lentula

Four species, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Limpopoacris

One species, Limpopoacris obeliscata, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

 

Mecostibus

Thirteen species occurring mainly in East Africa but with one species, Mecostibus glaber, with a distribution extending south to Mozambique.

 

 

 

Microusambilla

One species, Microusambilla cylindricollis, known from Zimbabwe.

 

 

 

Paralentula

Four species, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Qachasia

One species, Qachasia fastigiata, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Silvanidium

Three species, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

 

Swaziacris

Two species, Swaziacris burtti and Swaziacris fastigiata, both endemic to southern Africa.

Subfamily: Shelforditinae

 

 

 

Afrotettix

Two species: Afrotettix fursti and Afrotettix gariepensis, both endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Atopotettix

One species: Atopotettix megalocephalus, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Calviniacris

One species: Calviniacris nuda, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

 

Dirshidium

One species: Dirshidium leucospilos, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Kalaharicus

One species: Kalaharicus elongatus, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Karruacris

One species: Karruacris browni, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

 

Leatettix

Two species: Leatettix laticornis and Leatettix nasuta, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Namatettix

One species: Namatettix denticornis, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Occidentula

One species: Occidentula latens, endemic to southern Africa.

 

 

Shelfordites

Two species: Shelfordites aberrans and Shelfordites nanus, endemic to southern Africa.

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