Phaneroptera Serville, 1831, Ann. Sci. Nat. 22, 158. Type species: Gryllus falcata Poda, 1761; by subsequent designation. Dannfeltia Sjostedt, 1901, Bih. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. 27 (4, 3): 19. Type species: Dannfeltia amplectens Sjöstedt, by original monotypy; Ragge, 1980, Bulletin Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 40 (2): 135 (syn.)
Anerota Caudell, 1921, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 11: 488. Type species: Gryllus falcatus [sic] Poda, 1761; by original designation. Paranerota Karny, 1926, Jour. Fed. Malay States Mus. 13 (2–3): 105. Type species: Phaneroptera gracilis Burmeister, 1838; by original designation.
Euanerota Karny, 1927, Zeitschr. gesamm. Naturwiss. 88: 12. Type species: Phaneroptera brevis Serville, 1838; by tentative original designation; Ragge, 1956, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 127 (2): 214 (syn.)
Description: Ragge (1956).