Mecopodinae

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.

Mecopodinae are characterized by their leaf-like forms, but are sometimes called "the long-legged katydids". It is a paraphyletic grouping that is part of the Phaneropteroid clade: sister to Phaneropterinae and Pseudophyllinae. Although , Orthoptera Species File places Mecopodinae within the family Tettigoniidae, the family Phaneropteridae has been recommended for reinstatement, with subfamilies Mecopodinae, Pseudophyllinae, Phyllophorinae, and Phaneropterinae.

Tribes and genera

, the Orthoptera Species File lists the following tribes and genera:

Acridoxenini

Auth: Zeuner, 1936 (West Africa)

• Acridoxena <small>White, 1865</small>

Aprosphylini

Auth: Naskrecki, 1994 (southern Africa)

• Aprosphylus <small>Pictet, 1888</small>
• Cedarbergeniana <small>Naskrecki, 1994</small>
• Ewanella <small>Naskrecki, 1994</small>
• Griffiniana <small>Karny, 1910</small>
• Pseudosaga <small>Brancsik, 1898</small>
• Zitsikama <small>Péringuey, 1916</small>

Leproscirtini

Auth: Gorochov, 1988 (equatorial Africa)

• Leproscirtus <small>Karsch, 1891</small>

Mecopodini

Auth: Walker, 1871 (Africa, Asia: India through to Australia)

1. Afromecopoda <small>Uvarov, 1940</small> (west and central Africa)
2. Anoedopoda <small>Karsch, 1891</small> (Africa)
3. Arachnacris <small>Giebel, 1861</small> (Malesia)
4. Austromecopoda <small>Rentz, Su & Ueshima, 2006</small> (Australia)
5. Characta <small>Redtenbacher, 1892</small> (Malesia)
6. Eumecopoda <small>Hebard, 1922</small> (Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia)
7. Mecopoda <small>Serville, 1831</small> (India, China, Korea, Japan, Indochina, Malesia, Melanesia)

Pomatonotini

Auth: Willemse, 1961 (southern Africa)

• Pomatonota <small>Burmeister, 1838</small>

Sexavini

Auth: Karny, 1924 ("Sexavaini" was an orthographical variant) - central Malesia to Australia (not Sumatra or mainland Asia)

• Biroa <small>Bolívar, 1903</small>
• Gressittiella <small>Willemse, 1961</small>
• Leptophyoides <small>Willemse, 1961</small>
• Paraphrictidea <small>Willemse, 1933</small>
• Phrictaeformia <small>Willemse, 1961</small>
• Phrictaetypus <small>Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898</small>
• Phrictidea <small>Bolívar, 1911</small>
• Pseudophrictaetypus <small>Willemse, 1961</small>
• Pseudophyllanax <small>Walker, 1869</small>

subtribe Mossulina

(Java to Papua New Guinea and Pacific islands)

• Albertisiella <small>Griffini, 1908</small>
• Dasyphleps <small>Karsch, 1891</small>
• Diaphlebopsis <small>Karny, 1931</small>
• Diaphlebus <small>Karsch, 1891</small>
• Huona <small>Kuthy, 1910</small>
• Mossula <small>Walker, 1869</small>
• Mossuloides <small>Willemse, 1940</small>
• Neodiaphlebus <small>Kästner, 1934</small>
• Ocica <small>Walker, 1869</small>
• Paradiaphlebopsis <small>Kästner, 1934 </small>
• Paradiaphlebus <small>Bolívar, 1903</small>
• Paramossula <small>Willemse, 1940</small>

subtribe Sexavina

(Australasia to the Philippines)

• Segestes <small>StÃ¥l, 1877</small>
• Segestidea <small>Bolívar, 1903</small>
• Sexava <small>Walker, 1870</small>

Tabariini

Auth: Braun, Chamorro Rengifo & Morris, 2009 (South America)

• Encentra <small>Redtenbacher, 1892</small>
• Rhammatopoda <small>Redtenbacher, 1892</small>
• Tabaria <small>Walker, 1870</small>

Tribe unallocated

1. Apteroscirtus <small>Karsch, 1891</small> (Africa)
2. Aulocrania <small>Uvarov, 1940</small> (Sri Lanka)
3. Charisoma <small>Bolívar, 1903</small> (Papua New Guinea)
4. Corycoides <small>Uvarov, 1939</small> (Africa)
5. Elumiana <small>Uvarov, 1940</small> (Congo)
6. Gymnoscirtus <small>Karsch, 1891</small> (east Africa)
7. Ityocephala <small>Redtenbacher, 1892</small> (Pacific islands)
8. Kheilia <small>Bolívar, 1898</small> (Papua New Guinea)
9. Pachysmopoda <small>Karsch, 1886</small> (Socotra)
10. Philoscirtus <small>Karsch, 1896</small> (east Africa)
11. Strongyloderus: S. serraticollis Westwood, 1834 (India)
12. Vetralla (insect) (Sri Lanka: synonym Euthypoda )
13. Zacatula <small>Walker, 1870</small> (eastern Indonesia)

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