<documentid="2D9511537C9160517037297945D2C6D6"ID-CLB-Dataset="25698"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.77.769"ID-GBIF-Dataset="041b36c9-43f0-42e0-a8fd-0e7825af491c"ID-PMC="PMC3088056"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-77-17"ID-PubMed="21594149"ModsDocAuthor=""ModsDocDate="2011"ModsDocID="1313-2970-77-17"ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 77"ModsDocTitle="On the placement of the Cretaceous orthopteran Brauckmannia groeningae from Brazil, with notes on the relationships of Schizodactylidae (Orthoptera, Ensifera)"checkinTime="1451250827295"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Heads, Sam W. & Leuzinger, Lea"docDate="2011"docId="C9ACD9C11710DC342860713A84E4A2FD"docLanguage="en"docName="ZooKeys 77: 17-30"docOrigin="ZooKeys 77"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.77.769"docTitle="Schizodactylidae Blanchard 1845"docType="treatment"docVersion="6"lastPageNumber="18"masterDocId="FFB9FFCFF633200CFFE2E534FF9D5F4F"masterDocTitle="On the placement of the Cretaceous orthopteran Brauckmannia groeningae from Brazil, with notes on the relationships of Schizodactylidae (Orthoptera, Ensifera)"masterLastPageNumber="30"masterPageNumber="17"pageNumber="18"updateTime="1732939058746"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="63DC95400F37589525C720E97B505896">On the placement of the Cretaceous orthopteran Brauckmannia groeningae from Brazil, with notes on the relationships of Schizodactylidae (Orthoptera, Ensifera)</mods:title>
<bibRefCitationid="40609A3CE00985BBD5E2F861489A922E"author="Blanchard, E"journalOrPublisher="Savy, Paris"pageId="7"pageNumber="24"title="Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, leurs Moeurs, leurs Metamorphoses et leur Classification, ou Traite Elementaire d'Entomologie"year="1845">Blanchard 1845</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="87B19951FB64E17E1FF2F398F497A2E3"author="Ramme, W"journalOrPublisher="Zeitschrift fuer Morphologie und Oekologie der Tiere"pageId="9"pageNumber="26"pagination="163 - 172"title="Systematisches, Verbreitung und Morphobiologisches Aus der Gryllacriden-Unterfamilie Schizodactylinae (Orth)."volume="22"year="1931">Ramme 1931</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="C10E9AA75E81505C9FE4A012781AAD70"author="Martins-Neto, RG"journalOrPublisher="Gaea"pageId="9"pageNumber="26"pagination="3 - 8"title="New Orthoptera Stenopelmatoidea and Hagloidea (Ensifera) from the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous, northeast Brazil) with description of new taxa."volume="3"year="2007">Martins-Neto 2007</bibRefCitation>
, or splay-footed crickets, are a relict group of primitive Ensifera notable for their uniquely modified tarsi, which bear distinctive lobe-like lateral processes that serve to support the insects as they walk around their sandy habitats. The family is traditionally subdivided into two monotypic subfamilies:
<bibRefCitationid="37B1651448BD07B9C15127C26ABB95B4"author="Fletcher, TB"journalOrPublisher="Government Press, Madras"pageId="8"pageNumber="25"title="Some South Indian Insects and Other Animals of Importance Considered Especially from an Economic Point of View"year="1914">Fletcher 1914</bibRefCitation>
have an intimidating habitus and clear predatory adaptations including raptorial prothoracic legs and powerful, enlarged mouthparts. Sub-social behaviour and cannibalism have been observed in populations of
<bibRefCitationid="8B3D79BF3B83851C6F418BEFD9FE60AF"author="Choudhuri, DK"journalOrPublisher="Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol"pageId="7"pageNumber="24"pagination="569 - 573"title="On the sub-social behaviour and cannibalism in Schizodactylus monstrosus (Orthoptera: Schizodactylidae)."volume="11"year="1974">Choudhuri and Bagh 1974</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="3C97294A7269AA501D95BD7BD99AF92B"author="Aydin, G"journalOrPublisher="Turkish Journal of Zoology"pageId="7"pageNumber="24"pagination="427 - 432"title="The biology, nymphal stages, and life habits of the endemic sand dune cricket Schizodactylus inexpectatus (Werner, 1901) (Orthoptera: Schizodactylidae)."volume="32"year="2008">Aydin and Khomutov (2008)</bibRefCitation>
