''Phalangopsis''Serville (1831) ''Ann. Sci. nat.'' 22(86): 166. is a

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ...

genus of

crickets Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. In older literature, such as Imms,Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) ''A General Textbook of Entomology'' 9th Ed. Methuen 8 ...

(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 ...

) in the family

Phalangopsidae The Phalangopsidae are a recently reconstituted family of crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera), based on the type genus '' Phalangopsis'' Serville, 1831 from South America. Priority for family-group names based on this genus dates from Blanchard's "' ...

, subfamily

Phalangopsinae Phalangopsinae, occasionally known as spider crickets, are a subfamily of crickets in the family Phalangopsidae. Members of Phalangopsinae are found worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions. Most species in the subfamily are nocturnal and c ...

, tribe Phalangopsini.

Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved January 2021)
/ref> lists: *'' Phalangopsis arenita'' Mews & Sperber, 2008 *'' Phalangopsis araguaia'' Pereira Junta, Castro-Souza & Lopes Ferreira, 2020 *'' Phalangopsis bauxitica'' Mews & Sperber, 2008 *'' Phalangopsis carvalhoi'' Costa Lima & Costa Leite, 1953 *'' Phalangopsis ferratilis'' Pereira Junta, Castro-Souza & Lopes Ferreira, 2020 *'' Phalangopsis flavilongipes'' Desutter-Grandcolas, 1992 *'' Phalangopsis gaudichaudi'' Saussure, 1874 *'' Phalangopsis kyju'' Pereira Junta, Castro-Souza & Lopes Ferreira, 2020 *'' Phalangopsis kysuia'' Pereira Junta, Castro-Souza & Lopes Ferreira, 2020 *'' Phalangopsis longipes'' Serville, 1831 - type species (by subsequent designation, localities French Guiana, Brazil) *'' Phalangopsis quartzitica'' Pereira Junta, Castro-Souza & Lopes Ferreira, 2020

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* {{taxonbar, from=Q10626332 Ensifera genera crickets Orthoptera of South America