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family Pneumoridae Thunberg, 1810

• Common name(s):  bladder grasshoppers
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Herbivorous
• Citations (23):
  • Stål. 1873. Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg 1:136   >> Note: Pneumoridae
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova 2 13(33):114   >> Note: Pneumoridae
  • Péringuey. 1916. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 15(6):401–452, pl. 42   >> Note: Pneumorinae
  • Handlirsch. 1922. Handbuch der Entomologie, (Schröder, C.) 3:448  
  • Ander. 1939. Opuscula Entomologica 2(Suppl.):6 >> Note: Acridoidea: Pneumoridae
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 27 >> Note: Pneumoridae
  • Dirsh. 1956. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 108(7):237 >> Note: Pneumoridae
  • Dirsh. 1961. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 10(9):366  
  • Dirsh. 1965. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 15(10):325-396   >> Note: Acridoidea: Pneumoridae
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:37 >> Note: Pneumoridae
  • Dirsh. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects 34 >> Note: Pneumoroidea, subfamilies Pneumorinae & Parabullacrinae
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1982. In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2:371 >> Note: Pneumoridea: Pneumoroidea: Pneumoridae
  • Alexander, A.J. & van Staaden. 1989. Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals 261–277
  • Otte, D. 1994. Orthoptera Species File 2:138 >> Note: Pneumoroidea: Pneumoridae
  • Yin, X.-C., J. Shi & Z. Yin. 1996. Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera) 3
  • Flook & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 1997. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 8:89-103
  • van Staaden & Römer. 1997. J. Exp. Biol. 200(20):2597-2608  
  • Flook, S. Klee & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2000. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 15(3):345-354 >> Note: Pneumoroidea: Pneumoridae
  • Eades. 2000. Jour. Orth. Res. 9:204
  • Couldridge & van Staaden. 2004. J. Exp. Biol. 207:2777-2786  
  • van Staaden, Römer & Couldridge. 2004. How Simple Nervous Systems Create Complex Perceptual Worlds 261-277
  • Picker, M., Griffiths & Weaving. 2005. Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa 90
  • Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser, C. Hemp & Harvey. 2015. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 1. Pneumoridae, Pyrgomorphidae, Lentulidae, Pamphagidae and Dericorythidae 41
• Type genus:  Pneumora Thunberg, 1775; priority for family-group names based on Pneumora dates from Pneumorae Thunberg, 1810.  First use as Pneumoridae by Stål, 1873.

• synonym Pneumorae Thunberg, 1810
• synonym Pneumorinae Thunberg, 1810
• synonym Pneumorites Thunberg, 1810
• genus Bullacris Roberts, 1941
• synonym Bulla Stål, 1873
• species boschimana (Péringuey, 1916)
• species discolor (Thunberg, 1810)
• species intermedia (Péringuey, 1916)
• species membracioides (Walker, 1870)
• species obliqua (Thunberg, 1810)
• species serrata (Thunberg, 1810)
• species unicolor (Linnaeus, 1758)
• genus Parabullacris Dirsh, 1963
• species vansoni Dirsh, 1963
• genus Paraphysemacris Dirsh, 1963
• species spinosus Dirsh, 1963
• genus Peringueyacris Dirsh, 1965
• synonym Peringyeyacris Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996
• species namaqua (Péringuey, 1916)
• genus Physemacris Roberts, 1941
• synonym Bulla Linnaeus, 1758
• species papillosa (Fabricius, 1775)
• species variolosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
• genus Physophorina Westwood, 1874
• synonym Shortridgea Péringuey, 1916
• species livingstonii Westwood, 1874
• species miranda (Péringuey, 1916)
• genus Pneumora Thunberg, 1775
• synonym Cystocoelia Serville, 1838
• synonym Pneumore Latreille, 1825
• species inanis (Fabricius, 1775)
• genus Pneumoracris Dirsh, 1963
• species browni Dirsh, 1963
• genus Prostalia Bolívar, 1906
• synonym Pompholyx Stål, 1873
• species granulata (Stål, 1873)

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