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family Pyrgacrididae Kevan, 1974

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Herbivorous
• Citations:
  • Otte, D. 1994. Orthoptera Species File 3:30 >> Note: Pyrgomorphidae: Pyrgacridinae
  • Eades. 2000. Jour. Orth. Res. 9:193 >> Note: Raised Pyrgacridinae to family Pyrgacrididae
  • Hugel. 2014. Zootaxa 3900(3):403
  • Song, H. 2018. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, Volume 2 270
• Type genus:  Pyrgacris Descamps, 1968; priority for family-group names based on Pyrgacris dates from Pyrgacridinae Kevan, D.K.M., 1974.  First use as Pyrgacrididae by Eades, 2000.

• synonym Pyrgacridinae Kevan, 1974
• genus Pyrgacris Descamps, 1968
• species descampsi Kevan, 1976
• species relictus Descamps, 1968

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