The Oecanthidae are a recently (2022 de Campos LD, Souza-Dias PGB, Audino JA, Desutter-Grandcolas L, Nihei SS (2022) The fifth family of the true crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera: Grylloidea), Oecanthidae defin. Nov.: phylogenetic relationships and divergence times. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 20, 1–44.) restored family of crickets based on the type genus Oecanthus . They include "tree crickets", "anomalous crickets" and "bush crickets" (American usage) and can be found in warmer parts of most of the world (not the northern Palaearctic, Nearctic or Antarctica).Orthoptera Species File: family Oecanthidae Blanchard, 1845 (retrieved 31 October 2024)
Origin and circumscription The family and lower taxonomic names are based on "Oecanthites" used by Émile Blanchard in 1845,Blanchard E (1845) Histoire des insectes: traitant de leurs moeurs et de leurs métamorphoses en général et comprenant une nouvelle classification fondée sur leurs rapports naturels 2: 245. with the first use as Oecanthidae by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl in 1873.Brunner von Wattenwyl C (1873) Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Gesellsch. 4(4): 164. Campos et al. (2022) provide a key to the four subfamilies and tribes.
subfamily Euscyrtinae Auth: Gorochov, 1985; selected genera: Beybienkoana Euscyrtodes Euscyrtus - type genus Patiscus
subfamily Oecanthinae Auth: Blanchard, 1845: the tree crickets which are delicate white or pale green insects with transparent fore wings. Three tribes are now placed in two supertribes: supertribe Diatrypidi Desutter-Grandcolas, 1988 monotypic genus Diatrypa supertribe Oecanthidi Blanchard, 1845 tribe Oecanthini Blanchard, 1845 tribe Xabeini Vickery & Kevan, 1983 unplaced genera
Podoscirtinae Auth: Saussure, 1878; : previously a subfamily group containing the "anomalous crickets" supertribe Hapithidi Gorochov, 1986 tribe Aphonomorphini Desutter-Grandcolas, 1988 tribe Cearacesaini Koçak & Kemal, 2010 tribe Hapithini Gorochov, 1986 tribe Phyllogryllini Campos, 2022 supertribe Podoscirtidi Saussure, 1878 tribe Aphonoidini Gorochov, 2008 tribe Podoscirtini Saussure, 1878 tribe Truljaliini Gorochov, 2020 Unplaced genera (extinct)
Tafaliscinae Auth: Desutter-Grandcolas, 1988: previously incorporated in the Oecanthinae supertribe Paroecanthidi Gorochov, 1986 tribe Neometrypini Desutter-Grandcolas, 1988 tribe Paroecanthini Gorochov, 1986 supertribe Tafaliscidi Desutter-Grandcolas, 1988 tribe Tafaliscini Desutter-Grandcolas, 1988 Tafalisca - type genus
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