The HetrodinaeBrunner von Wattenwyl (1878) ''Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien,'' vol. 28, p. 1-401. are a subfamily of robust bush crickets, also known as armoured katydids, corn crickets, ''etc.'' (Orthoptera:

Ensifera Ensifera is a suborder of insects that includes the various types of crickets and their allies including: true crickets, camel crickets, bush crickets or katydids, grigs, weta and Cooloola monsters. This and the suborder Caelifera (grasshop ...

) currently including five

tribes The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to conflic ...

Distribution

The subfamily is endemic to

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

and adjacent areas of the

Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate ...

Tribes and genera

The subfamily consists of the following tribes and genera:Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 11 December 2022)
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Acanthoplini

Authority: Ebner 1964 Greenarmorednamib

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Acanthoplus ''Acanthoplus'' is a genus of African bush crickets in the subfamily Hetrodinae and tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in En ...

'' Stål, 1873 # '' Cloanthella'' Bolívar, 1890

Anepisceptini

Authority: Schmidt, G.H. 1998 # '' Anepisceptus'' Fieber, 1853 # '' Weidnerius'' Schmidt, 1998

Enyaliopsini

Authority: Weidner 1955 # '' Cosmoderus'' Lucas, 1868 # ''

Enyaliopsis ''Enyaliopsis'' is the largest genus in the subfamily Hetrodinae and typical of the tribe Enyaliopsini (family Tettigoniidae: the bush-crickets or katydids). It is made up of 24 species found from east-central to southern Africa. *'' Enyaliops ...

'' Karsch, 1887 # '' Gymnoproctus'' Karsch, 1887 # '' Hemihetrodes'' Pictet, 1888

Eugastrini

Authority: Karsch 1887 # ''

Acanthoproctus ''Acanthoproctus'' is a genus of African bush crickets in the subfamily Hetrodinae and tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in ...

'' Karsch, 1887 # '' Bradyopisthius'' Karsch, 1887 # '' Eugaster'' Serville, 1838 # '' Eugasteroides'' Weidner, 1955 # ''

Spalacomimus ''Spalacomimus'' is a genus of African bush crickets in the subfamily Hetrodinae and tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in E ...

'' Karsch, 1887

Hetrodini

Authority: Brunner von Wattenwyl 1878 * ''

Hetrodes ''Hetrodes'' is a genus of South African Orthopterans, typical of the subfamily Hetrodinae, erected by Fischer von Waldheim in 1833. Fischer von Waldheim (1833) ''Ann. Soc. ent. Fr.'' 2: 318. It is a monotypic genus and currently the sole repre ...

'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1833

References

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q3134926 Tettigoniidae Orthoptera subfamilies