Some short-horn Grasshoppers Belonging to the Subfamily Pyrgomorphinae (Pyrgomorphidae: Orthoptera) from Cameroon

Abstract

This study includes six Pyrgomorphinae species in six genera under the family Pyrgomorphidae. These grasshoppers: Atractomorpha lata (Mochulsky, 1866), Chrotogonus senegalensis (Krauss, 1877), Dictyophorus griseus (I. Bolivar, 1894), Pyrgomorpha vignaudii (Guerin-Meneville, 1849), Taphronota thaelephora (Stal, 1873) and Zonocerus variegatus (Linnaeus, 1793)have been recorded from various localities in the Menoua Division in the West Region of Cameroon. The main objective of this study was to explore the short- horn grasshopper species belonging to the Subfamily Pyrgomorphinae (Family: Pyrgomorphidae, Order: Orthoptera) from Cameroon along with new record, measurement of different body parts and Bio-Ecology.