Clarification of the taxonomy of extant crickets of the subfamily Eneopterinae (Orthoptera: Grylloidea; Gryllidae)
Author
Robillard, Tony
Author
Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
text
Zootaxa
2008
1789
66
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.182523
263d6510-f54d-4fa4-9f24-18f213fa23b2
1175-5326
182523
Eneopterinae
incertae sedis
Swezwilderia
Chopard
(
type
species:
Swezwilderia bryani
Chopard
)
According to phylogenetic analyses, the position of
Swezwilderia
within
Eneopterinae
is uncertain. The morphological phylogeny places it at the basis of the
Nisitrini
tribe, as the sister group of (
Nisitrus
–
Paranisitra
) (Robillard, 2006;
Robillard & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2004a
). This is contradicted later by the study including both molecular and morphological characters (Robillard & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2006), which puts
Swezwilderia
within the
Lebinthini
tribe, as the sister group of
Cardiodactylus
, as hypothesised by
Chopard (1929)
when he described the genus. However, in both studies the position of
Swezwilderia
is weakly supported. Stabilisation is thus expected before placing the genus in one tribe or another with confidence.