Published November 2, 2022 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Oecanthinae Blanchard 1845

Description

SUBFAMILY OECANTHINAE BLANCHARD, 1845 DEFIN. NOV.

Oecanthites Blanchard, 1845: 245, Saussure, 1874: 428, Saussure, 1878: 590.

Oecanthiens Saussure, 1874: 427, Saussure, 1878: 534. Oecanthinae Saussure, 1897: 251, Scudder, 1987: 62, Azam, 1901: 104, Kirby, 1906: 109, Zeuner, 1939: 212, Walker, 1966: 265, Otte & Alexander, 1983: 374, Gorochov 1986: 851–858, Toms & Otte, 1988: 471, Nickle, 1992: 195, Otte, 1994: 85, Rentz, 1996: 147, Otte & Perez-Gelabert, 2009: 491, Gorochov, 2015: 31–34, Collins & Carson, 2014: 170, Chintauan-Marquier et al., 2016: 73, Rentz & Su, 2019: 231.

Type genus: Oecanthus Serville, 1831.

Distribution: Worldwide.

Diagnosis: Generally found in trees or bushes. Almost all representatives with well-developed FWs and stridulatory apparatus (except in Paraphasius Chopard, 1927, Leptogryllus Perkins, 1899 and Thaumatogryllus Perkins, 1899); lateral field not perpendicular to dorsal field, forming less than 90° angle (easily observable in posterior view) Supporting Information, (Fig. S2J2). TIII iav spur significantly reduced (Supporting Information, Fig. S6E). Dorsal valves of ovipositor bifurcate (Supporting Information, Figs S4 Ja, S5C, D), covering ventral valves laterally. Male genitalia: pseudepiphallic sclerite wider than long; LLophi bilobate.

Included supertribes: Oecanthidi Blanchard, 1845 supertrib.nov., Diatrypidi Desutter, 1988 supertrib. nov.,

Notes

Published as part of Campos, Lucas Denadai De, Dias, Pedro Guilherme Barrios De Souza, Audino, Jorge Alves, Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure & Nihei, Silvio Shigueo, 2023, The fifth family of the true crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera: Grylloidea), Oecanthidae defin. nov.: phylogenetic relationships and divergence times, pp. 1034-1077 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197 (4) on page 1050, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac066, http://zenodo.org/record/7803427

Files

Files (1.9 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:cecb19816c21a5107422c174b25a46c0
1.9 kB Download

System files (14.1 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:1e6f9c2e1c5b3dbcd8bee3ff625df1c7
14.1 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

References

  • Saussure H de. 1878. Melanges orthopterologiques: gryllides. VI. fascicule Gryllides. Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de GeneVe 25: 369 - 704.
  • Otte D, Alexander RD. 1983. The Australian crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Kansas: Allen Press.
  • Otte D. 1994. The crickets of Haaeaii: origin, systematics, and eVolution. Philadelphia: The Orthopterists' Society.
  • Otte D, Perez-Gelabert DE. 2009. Caribbean crickets. Philadelphia: The Orthopterists' Society.
  • Gorochov AV. 2015. Evolution and taxonomic significance of the copulatory apparatus in Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part 2: male genitalia in Grylloidea. Zoosystematica Rossica 24: 31 - 41.
  • Chintauan-Marquier IC, Legendre F, Hugel S, Robillard T, Grandcolas P, Nel A, Zuccon D, DesutterGrandcolas L. 2016. Laying the foundations of evolutionary and systematic studies in crickets (Insecta, Orthoptera): a multilocus phylogenetic analysis. Cladistics 32: 54 - 81.
  • Desutter L. 1988. Structure et evolution du complexe phallique des Gryllidea (Orthopteres) et classification des genres Neotropicaux de Grylloidea - deuxieme partie. Annales de La Societe Entomologique de France 24: 342 - 373.