The

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Pseudophyllinae contains numerous

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in the family

Tettigoniidae Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshoppers". More than 8,000 species are known. Part of the suborder Ensifera, t ...

, the katydids or bush crickets. Sometimes called "true katydids", together with the

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s of

suborder Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...

Ensifera, they form part of the insect

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Orthoptera Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...

which also contains

grasshopper Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago. Grasshopp ...

s. Members of the group are noted for their remarkable

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. They closely resemble dried leaves, including veins, various blotches and even bite marks.

Systematics

The Pseudophyllinae may be subdivided into the following

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(the first 17 of which are sometimes grouped into the super-tribes: Pleminiiti and Pseudophylliti) and

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

. Orthoptera Species File
(retrieved 25 December 2017) Some notable

are also listed here:

Aphractini

Auth.: (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1895) - Chile * '' Aphractus'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Paraphractus'' Beier, 1962 * '' Polycleptidella'' Beier, 1962 * '' Polycleptis'' Karsch, 1891

Aspidonotini

Auth.: (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1895) - Madagascar Bull Katydid (Aspidonotus spinosus) (7639102324)

* '' Aspidonotus'' Brullé, 1835

Callimenellini

Auth.: (Gorochov 1990) - Asia: including India, Indo-China and the Philippines * '' Callimenellus'' Walker, 1871

Cocconotini

Auth.: (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1895) - Central and southern America * '' Beierotettix'' Özdikmen, 2007 * '' Bliastes'' Stål, 1873 * '' Bliastonotideus'' Beier, 1962 * '' Bliastonotus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Brachybliastes'' Beier, 1960 * '' Calamoptera'' Saussure, 1861 * '' Chrysobliastes'' Beier, 1960 * '' Cobalotettix'' Beier, 1962 * '' Cocconotus'' Stål, 1873 * '' Cojedebius'' Kevan, 1989 * '' Diplopygia'' Beier, 1962 * '' Docidocercus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Eubliastes'' Beier, 1960 * '' Geonotus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Helicocercus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Idiarthron'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Incanotus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Jamaicoecia'' Beier, 1962 * '' Leiobliastes'' Beier, 1960 * '' Liparoscelis'' Stål, 1873 * '' Liparoscella'' Hebard, 1933 * ''

Melanonotus ''Melanonotus'' is a genus of katydid insects in the family Tettigoniidae Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grass ...

'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Meroncidius'' Serville, 1831 * '' Mystron'' Montealegre-Z. & Morris, 1999 * '' Nannonotus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Nannotettix'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Nastonotus'' Bolívar, 1890 * '' Natagaima'' Beier, 1960 * '' Nesoecia'' Scudder, 1893 * '' Nesonotus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Schedocentrus'' Hebard, 1924 * '' Sphaeropyga'' Beier, 1960 * '' Stenotettix'' Stål, 1873 * '' Thamnobates'' Saussure & Pictet, 1898 * '' Trichotettix'' Stål, 1873

Cymatomerini

Auth.: (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1895) - Central Africa and Asia: including India, Indo-China, Malesia and the Philippines Katydid (Sanaa regalis) (8361823138)

Katydid (Tegra novaehollandiae immunis) (7840924066)

* '' Cymatomera'' Schaum, 1853 (Africa) * '' Cymatomerella'' Beier, 1954 (Africa) * ''

Olcinia ''Olcinia''Stål C (1877) ''Ofv. K. Vetensk. Akad. Forh.'' 34(10): 45. is a genus of Tettigoniidae, bush crickets in the sub-family Pseudophyllinae and tribe Cymatomerini. They are found in tropical forest regions of Indo-China and Malesia. Des ...

'' Stål, 1877 * ''

Parasanaa ''Parasanaa'' is a genus of bush-cricket recorded from India, Indochina, Malesia through to New Guinea. It is represented by a single species, ''Parasanaa donovani''Beier (1944) ''Stett. Entomol. Z.'' 105: 89. This insect has also been called '' ...

'' Beier, 1944 * '' Platenia'' Dohrn, 1888 - monotypic ''Platenia semialata'' (Philippines) * '' Sanaa'' Walker, 1870 * ''

Sathrophyllia ''Sathrophyllia'' is a genus of Asian bush crickets or katydids in the subfamily Pseudophyllinae and tribe Cymatomerini. They are usually found on the branches of bushes or trees where they sit close to a branch and spread out their forelegs and ...

'' Stål, 1874 * '' Sathrophylliopsis'' de Jong, 1939 (W.

Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The ...

) * ''

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'' Walker, 1870 * '' Tegrolcinia'' de Jong, 1939 (China, W. Malesia) * ''

Typhoptera ''Typhoptera''Kirby WF (1906) ''A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae)'' 2: 309 is an Asian genus of bush-crickets in the tribe Cymatomerini and the subfamily Pseudophyllinae. Species are recorde ...

'' Kirby, 1906

Eucocconotini

Auth.: Beier 1960 - Central and South America Panoploscelis specularis-male2

* '' Dicranostomus'' Dohrn, 1888 * '' Eucocconotideus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Eucocconotus'' Hebard, 1927 * '' Gnathoclita'' Hagenbach, 1842 * '' Myopophyllum'' Beier, 1960 * '' Onychopygia'' Beier, 1962 * ''

Panoploscelis ''Panoploscelis'' (commonly referred to as spiny lobster katydids or giant lobster crickets) is a genus of very large insects belonging to the Pseudophyllinae, true katydid tribe (biology), tribe Eucocconotini, which is a Family (biology), subfam ...

'' Scudder, 1869

Homalaspidiini

Auth.: (Otte, D. 1997) - Southern America * '' Arrhenotettix'' Caudell, 1918 * '' Disceratus'' Scudder, 1869 * '' Homalaspidia'' Uvarov, 1940 * '' Jimenezia'' Bolívar, 1881 * '' Sterphoter'' Rehn, 1946

Ischnomelini

Auth.: (Beier 1960) - Southern America * '' Goethalsiella'' Hebard, 1927 * '' Ischnomela'' Stål, 1873

Leptotettigini

Auth.: (Beier 1960) - Southern America * '' Chondrosternum'' Beier, 1960 * '' Leptotettix'' Stål, 1873 * ''

Macrochiton ''Macrochiton'' is a genus of katydids in the family Tettigoniidae Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshopper ...

'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Neochiton'' Beier, 1962 * '' Pezochiton'' Beier, 1960 * '' Platychiton'' Beier, 1960 * '' Semileptotettix'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895

Pantecphylini

Auth.: (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1895) - Central Africa * '' Pantecphylus'' Karsch, 1890

Phrictini

Auth.: Bolívar, 1903 - sometimes placed in the Mecopodinae (Eastern Australia) Phricta aberrans 3

* ''

Phricta ''Phricta'' is a genus of insects in the family Tettigoniidae confined to seasonal tropical forests of eastern Australia. It contains the following species: * ''Phricta aberrans ''Phricta aberrans'' is a species of spiny katydid native to nor ...

'' Redtenbacher, 1892

Phyllomimini

Auth.: (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1895) - West and central Africa; Australasia: India through to Pacific islands * '' Acanthoprion'' Pictet & Saussure, 1892 * '' Acauloplacella'' Karny, 1931 * '' Acauloplax'' Karsch, 1891 * '' Brochopeplus'' Pictet & Saussure, 1892 * '' Brunneriana'' Uvarov, 1923 * '' Chondrodera'' Karsch, 1890 * '' Chondroderella'' Hebard, 1922 * '' Despoina'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Diplodontopus'' Karny, 1931 * '' Gonyatopus'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Hapalophyllum'' Hebard, 1922 * ''

Hemigyrus ''Hemigyrus''Brunner von Wattenwyl C (1893) ''Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova'' 2 13(33): 175. is an Asian genus of Tettigoniidae, bush-crickets in the tribe Phyllomimini and the subfamily Pseudophyllinae. Species have been recorded from: sout ...

'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 * '' Heteraprium'' Krauss, 1903 * '' Lacipoda'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Lagarodes'' Karsch, 1890 * '' Margarodera'' Beier, 1957 * '' Mioacris'' Pictet & Saussure, 1892 * '' Morsimus'' Stål, 1877 * '' Orophyllus'' Beier, 1954 * ''

Paramorsimus ''Paramorsimus''Beier M (1954) ''Revision der Pseudophyllinen'' 203. is a genus of Asian Tettigoniidae, bush-crickets in the Tribe (biology), tribe Phyllomimini and the subfamily Pseudophyllinae. Species have been recorded (probably incompletel ...

'' Beier, 1954 * '' Paraphyllomimus'' Beier, 1954 * '' Phyllomimus'' Stål, 1873 * '' Phyllozelus'' Redtenbacher, 1892 * '' Pirmeda'' Henry, 1940 * '' Promeca'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Pseudacanthoprion'' Beier, 1954 * '' Pseudophyllomimus'' Karny, 1924 * '' Rhinodera'' Beier, 1955 * '' Stenampyx'' Karsch, 1890 * '' Stizoscepa'' Karsch, 1896 * '' Temnophylloides'' Henry, 1939 * '' Temnophyllus'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * ''

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'' Stål, 1877 * '' Tomias'' Karsch, 1890 * '' Tympanophyllum'' Krauss, 1903 * '' Tympanoptera'' Redtenbacher, 1892 * '' Zumala'' Walker, 1869

Platyphyllini

Auth.: (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1895) - Southern America * '' Acyrophyllum'' Beier, 1960 * '' Aemasia'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Antillophyllum'' Beier, 1960 * '' Baliophyllum'' Beier, 1962 * '' Brachyauchenus'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Choeroparnops'' Dohrn, 1888 * ''

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'' Stål, 1875 * '' Drepanoxiphus'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Haenschiella'' Beier, 1960 * '' Kopis'' Beier, 1960 * '' Myrmeciophyllum'' Beier, 1960 * '' Opetiocercus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Platyphyllum'' Serville, 1831 * '' Rhabdotophyllum'' Beier, 1960 * '' Triencentrus'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Xiphophyllum'' Beier, 1960

Pleminiini

Auth.: (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1895) - Central and southern America, West and central Africa Katydid (Batodromeus subulo) (7656849674)

* ''

Acanthodis ''Acanthodis'' is a genus of katydids belonging to the family Tettigoniidae Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned gra ...

'' Serville, 1831 * '' Acanthorhinischia'' Beier, 1954 * '' Adapantus'' Karsch, 1891 * '' Adeclus'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Adenes'' Karsch, 1891 * '' Amiltonia'' Piza, 1976 * '' Ancistrocercus'' Beier, 1954 * '' Anonistus'' Walker, 1871 * '' Apereisis'' Walker, 1871 * '' Aspidopygia'' Beier, 1962 * '' Balboana'' Uvarov, 1939 * '' Batodromeus'' Karsch, 1896 * '' Beieroschema'' Özdikmen, 2008 (formerly ''Colobotettix'' Beier, 1960 (''non'' Ribaut, 1948:

preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...

)) * '' Bufotettix'' Caudell, 1918 * '' Championica'' Saussure & Pictet, 1898 * '' Clepsydronotus'' Beier, 1954 * '' Condylocnemis'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Corynecercus'' Beier, 1954 * '' Dasyscelidius'' Beier, 1954 * '' Dasyscelus'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Diacanthodis'' Walker, 1870 * '' Enthacanthodes'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Gongrocnemis'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Habrocomes'' Karsch, 1890 * '' Haemodiasma'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Hoplidostylus'' Karsch, 1893 * '' Jamaicana'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Labidocercus'' Beier, 1954 * '' Leurophyllidium'' Beier, 1954 * '' Leurophyllum'' Kirby, 1906 * '' Lichenochrus'' Karsch, 1890 * '' Mormotus'' Karsch, 1890 * '' Nesokatoikos'' Braun & Maehr, 2008 (formerly ''Nesocnemis'' Beier, 1954 (''non'' Sélys, 1891:

)) * '' Nesophyllidium'' Beier, 1954 * '' Orpacanthophora'' Beier, 1954 * '' Paradeclus'' Beier, 1954 * '' Paralichenochrus'' Beier, 1954 * '' Parapleminia'' Beier, 1954 * '' Pedinothorax'' Beier, 1954 * '' Phyllostachydius'' Beier, 1954 * '' Pleminia'' Stål, 1874 * ''

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'' Karsch, 1890 * '' Pristonotus'' Uvarov, 1940 * '' Pseudopleminia'' Beier, 1954 * '' Rhinischia'' Beier, 1954 * ''

Schochia ''Schochia'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895, is an extant genus of South American bush-cricket (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in the subfamily Pseudophyllinae The subfamily Pseudophyllinae contains numerous species in the family Tettigoniidae, the ...

'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Sphyrophyllum'' Beier, 1954 * '' Stenoschema'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Tetragonomera'' Stål, 1874 * '' Tympanocompus'' Karsch, 1891 * '' Xerophyllopteryx'' Rehn, 1905

Polyancistrini

Auth.: (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1895) - Mexico, Caribbean, Southern America * '' Camposiella'' Hebard, 1924 * '' Polyancistroides'' Rehn, 1901 * '' Polyancistrus'' Serville, 1831 * '' Sagephorus'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Spelaeala'' Rehn, 1943 * '' Spinapecta'' Naskrecki & Lopes-Andrade, 2005

Pseudophyllini

Auth.: (Burmeister 1838) - West and central Africa; Asia: India, Indo-China through to Papua New Guinea Onomarchus Kanara

* '' Brunneana'' Uvarov, 1939 * '' Chloracris'' Pictet & Saussure, 1892 * '' Climacoptera'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Cratioma'' Bolívar, 1906 * '' Desaulcya'' Bolívar, 1906 * '' Liocentrum'' Karsch, 1890 * ''

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'' Karsch, 1896 * '' Mustius'' Stål, 1874 * '' Onomarchus'' Stål, 1874 * '' Opisthodicrus'' Karsch, 1890 * '' Oxyaspis'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Perteus'' Bolívar, 1906 * ''

Pseudophyllus ''Pseudophyllus''Serville (1831) ''Ann. Sci. nat.'' 22(86): 143. is a genus of bush-cricket, found in Indo-China and Malesia (including the Philippines). It is the type genus of the tribe Pseudophyllini and the subfamily Pseudophyllinae. Speci ...

'' Serville, 1831 ** '' Pseudophyllus titan'' * '' Rhomboptera'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Zabalius'' Bolívar, 1886 ** ''

Zabalius apicalis ''Zabalius apicalis'' is a species of katydid Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshoppers". More than 8,000 sp ...

Pterophyllini

Auth.: (Karny, 1925) – Americas * '' Caloxiphus'' Saussure & Pictet, 1898 * '' Caribophyllum'' Rehn, 1947 * '' Diophanes'' Stål, 1875 * '' Elytraspis'' Beier, 1962 * '' Karukerana'' Bonfils, 1965 * '' Lea'' Caudell, 1906 * '' Lophaspis'' Redtenbacher, 1895 * '' Mastophyllum'' Beier, 1960 * ''

Paracyrtophyllus ''Paracyrtophyllus'' is a genus of western true katydids in the family Tettigoniidae Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-h ...

'' Caudell, 1906 * '' Parascopioricus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Phyllopectis'' Rehn, 1948 * '' Pterophylla'' Kirby, 1825 * '' Scopioricus'' Uvarov, 1940 * '' Scopiorinus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Thliboscelus'' Serville, 1838 * '' Xestoptera'' Redtenbacher, 1895

Simoderini

Auth.: (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895) - Madagascar, Australia * '' Chloracantha'' Hebard, 1922 * '' Lonchitophyllum'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895 * '' Mastigaphoides'' Weidner, 1965 * '' Mastighapha'' Karsch, 1891 * '' Parasimodera'' Carl, 1914 * '' Phyrama'' Karsch, 1889 * '' Simodera'' Karsch, 1891 * '' Wattenwyliella'' Carl, 1914

Teleutiini

Auth.: (Beier, 1960) - Panama to Southern America * '' Acanthodiphrus'' Walker, 1871 * '' Apteroteleutias'' Beier, 1962 * '' Beierella'' Piza, 1978 * '' Brachyteleutias'' Beier, 1960 * '' Chibchella'' Hebard, 1927 * '' Eumecopterus'' Beier, 1960 * '' Hoplotettix'' Caudell, 1918 * '' Leptoteleutias'' Beier, 1962 * '' Mylothrella'' Beier, 1960 * '' Pemba'' Walker, 1870 * '' Stetharasa'' Montealegre-Z. & Morris, 1999 * ''

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'' Stål, 1874

Tribe undetermined

* '' Narea'' Walker, 1870 - Australia * ''† Archepseudophylla'' Nel, Prokop & Ross, 2008 Due to the great diversity of this subfamily, it is not unequivocally delimited yet.

References

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q3409834 Orthoptera subfamilies Taxa named by Hermann Burmeister