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Subfamily of cricket-like animals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mecopodinae are a subfamily of bush crickets found in western South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. In Asia, the distribution includes India, Indochina, Japan, the Philippines, and Malesia to Papua New Guinea and Australasia, including many Pacific islands.[2][3]
Mecopodinae | |
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Mecopoda nipponensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Ensifera |
Infraorder: | Tettigoniidea |
Superfamily: | Tettigonioidea |
Family: | Tettigoniidae |
Subfamily: | Mecopodinae Walker, 1871[1] |
Synonyms | |
(Acrdidoxenini)
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Mecopodinae are characterized by their leaf-like forms, but are sometimes called "the long-legged katydids".[citation needed] It is a paraphyletic grouping that is part of the Phaneropteroid clade: sister to Phaneropterinae and Pseudophyllinae.[3] Although as of December 2018[update], Orthoptera Species File places Mecopodinae within the family Tettigoniidae, the family Phaneropteridae has been recommended for reinstatement,[4] with subfamilies Mecopodinae, Pseudophyllinae, Phyllophorinae, and Phaneropterinae.
As of June 2018[update], the Orthoptera Species File lists the following tribes and genera:[2]
Auth: Zeuner, 1936 (West Africa)
Auth: Naskrecki, 1994 (southern Africa)
Auth: Gorochov, 1988 (equatorial Africa)
Auth: Walker, 1871 (Africa, Asia: India through to Australia)
Auth: Willemse, 1961 (southern Africa)
Auth: Karny, 1924 - central Malesia to Australia (not Sumatra or mainland Asia)
(Java to Papua New Guinea and Pacific islands)
(Australasia to the Philippines)
Auth: Braun, Chamorro Rengifo & Morris, 2009 (South America)
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