Phalangopsidae crickets from Tropical Africa (Orthoptera, Grylloidea), with descriptions of new taxa and an identification key for African genera
Author
Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
text
Zootaxa
2015
3948
3
451
496
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3948.3.5
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1175-5326
241857
809AC895-779E-419D-8EBE-071F0ACCD72E
Phalangopsidae Blanchard, 1845
Remark.
I consider here the family
Phalangopsidae
as the monophyletic group attested by molecular phylogeny (
Chintauan-Marquier
et al.
2013
,
2015
) and redefined in Desutter-Grandcolas
et al.
(submit.). This family corresponds to the "
Phalangopsinae
subfamily group" used in the OSF, except that it includes most of the taxa of the
Gryllomorphinae
subfamily usually classified within the "
Gryllinae
subfamily group". Its subfamilial and tribal subdivisions are today not fully settled, as most subfamilies and tribes, except the subfamily
Phaloriinae
Gorochov, 1985
, were found para- or polyphyletic with molecular evidence. This subfamily is redefined here, to complete previous definitions which were very short and did not describe most morphological characters.