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the web of life in southern Africa

Family: Tetrigidae (pygmy grasshoppers)

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 > Tetrigoidea

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.

 

Coptotettix

Seventy species, with a distribution that includes Africa, Asia and Australia. Two species, Coptotettix convexus and Coptotettix rufipes, are native to southern Africa.

 

Dasyleurotettix

Five species, occurring in Africa and South America. One species, Dasyleurotettix infaustus, is native to southern Africa.

Euparatettix

Seventy-two species, occurring in Africa and Asia. One species, Euparatettix histricus, is native to southern Africa.

Marshallacris

Five species, mainly occurring in Congo but with one species, Marshallacris africanus, native to Zimbabwe.

Morphopoides

Four species, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara and in Madagascar. One species, Morphopoides folipes, is native to southern Africa.

 

Paratettix

Seventy-one species, with a worldwide distribution (except Antarctica, northern Europe and northern Asia). Three species are native to southern Africa.

Phloeonotus

An African genus of three species. One species, Phloeonotus humilis, is native to southern Africa.

Pseudosystolederus

Two species in Madagascar and one, Pseudosystolederus lesnei, in Mozambique.

 

Tetrix

A worldwide genus of 154 species, with one species, Tetrix dubiosus, native to southern Africa.

 

Tettiella

An African genus of six species, with three species native to southern Africa.

 

Tettiellona

An African genus of five species, with one species, Tettiellona hypsimelathrus, native to southern Africa.

 

Trachytettix

An African genus of four species, with two species, Trachytettix bufo and Trachytettix scaberrimus, native to southern Africa.

 

Xerophyllum

An African genus of two species, one of which, Xerophyllum platycorys, is native to southern Africa.

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