Mecopodinae

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Mecopodinae
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Mecopoda nipponensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Infraorder: Tettigoniidea
Superfamily: Tettigonioidea
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Mecopodinae
Walker, 1871 [1]
Synonyms

(Acrdidoxenini)

  • Mecopodidae Walker, 1871
  • Mecopodidi Walker, 1871

Mecopodinae are a subfamily of bush crickets found in western South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. In Asia, the distribution includes India, Indochina, Japan, the Philippines, and Malesia to Papua New Guinea and Australasia, including many Pacific islands. [2] [3]

Contents

Mecopodinae are characterized by their leaf-like forms, but are sometimes called "the long-legged katydids".[ citation needed ] It is a paraphyletic grouping that is part of the Phaneropteroid clade: sister to Phaneropterinae and Pseudophyllinae. [3] Although as of December 2018, Orthoptera Species File places Mecopodinae within the family Tettigoniidae, the family Phaneropteridae has been recommended for reinstatement, [4] with subfamilies Mecopodinae, Pseudophyllinae, Phyllophorinae, and Phaneropterinae.

Tribes and genera

As of June 2018, the Orthoptera Species File lists the following tribes and genera: [2]

Acridoxenini

Auth: Zeuner, 1936 (West Africa)

Aprosphylini

Auth: Naskrecki, 1994 (southern Africa)

Leproscirtini

Auth: Gorochov, 1988 (equatorial Africa)

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Arachnacris amboinensis illustration
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Unknown Eumecapoda species
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Mecopoda elongata

Mecopodini

Auth: Walker, 1871 (Africa, Asia: India through to Australia)

Pomatonotini

Auth: Willemse, 1961 (southern Africa)

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Segestes decoratus
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Segestidea novaeguineae

Sexavaini

Auth: Karny, 1924 - central Malesia to Australia (not Sumatra or mainland Asia)

genus group Mossulae Willemse, 1961

(Java to Papua New Guinea and Pacific islands)

genus group Sexavae Karny, 1924

(Australasia to the Philippines)

Tabariini

Auth: Braun, Chamorro Rengifo & Morris, 2009 (South America)

Tribe unallocated

  1. Apteroscirtus Karsch, 1891 (Africa)
  2. Aulocrania Uvarov, 1940 (Sri Lanka)
  3. Charisoma Bolívar, 1903 (Papua New Guinea)
  4. Corycoides Uvarov, 1939 (Africa)
  5. Elumiana Uvarov, 1940 (Congo)
  6. Gymnoscirtus Karsch, 1891 (east Africa)
  7. Ityocephala Redtenbacher, 1892 (Pacific islands)
  8. Kheilia Bolívar, 1898 (Papua New Guinea)
  9. Pachysmopoda Karsch, 1886 (Socotra)
  10. Philoscirtus Karsch, 1896 (east Africa)
  11. Strongyloderus : S. serraticollis Westwood, 1834 (India)
  12. Vetralla Walker, 1869 (Sri Lanka)
  13. Zacatula Walker, 1870 (eastern Indonesia)

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References

  1. Walker F (1871) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum Supplement:101
  2. 1 2 Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 14 June 2018)
  3. 1 2 Mugleston, Joseph D; Naegle, Michael; Song, Hojun; Whiting, Michael F (July 2018). "A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera) Reveals Extensive Ecomorph Convergence and Widespread Taxonomic Incongruence". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 2 (4). doi:10.1093/isd/ixy010.
  4. Heller, K.-G., C. Hemp, C. Liu, and M. Volleth. 2014. Taxonomic, bioacoustic and faunistic data on a collection of Tettigonioidea from Eastern Congo (Insecta: Orthoptera). Zootaxa. 3785: 343–376.
  5. Rentz, D. C. F.; You Ning Su; Norihiro Ueshima (2006). "Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: The Mecopodine Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Mecopodinae; Mecopodini)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 132 (1/2): 1–23. doi:10.3157/0002-8320(2006)132[1:SIATTM]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR   25078910. S2CID   86264977.