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Pyrgomorphoidea

Pyrgomorphidae
Alpine grasshopper.jpg
Mountain grasshopper Monistria sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Superfamily: Pyrgomorphoidea
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874
Family: Pyrgomorphidae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874

Pyrgomorphidae is a family of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera commonly known as the gaudy grasshoppers. It is the only family in the superfamily Pyrgomorphoidea, and contains 29 genera and at least 70 species and subspecies.

Incomplete list of sub-families, tribes, genera and species:


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