Sclerogryllini

Sclerogryllini
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Superfamily: Grylloidea
Family: Gryllidae
Subfamily: Gryllinae
Tribe: Sclerogryllini
Gorochov, 1985
Synonyms
  • Sclerogryllinae Gorochov, 1985
  • Scleropteridae Saussure, 1877
  • Scleropterinae Saussure, 1877
  • Scleropterites Saussure, 1877
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The Sclerogryllini,[1] formerly subfamily Sclerogryllinae, are a tribe of crickets, now placed in the subfamily Gryllinae and based on the only extant, type genus Sclerogryllus. They may be known as "stiff-winged crickets" and are terrestrial insects, distributed in: India, Indochina, west Malesia, China, Korea and Japan.[2]

Genera

The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

subtribe Pherodactylina Cadena-Castañeda & He, 2023
subtribe Sclerogryllina Gorochov, 1985

Note: the African monotypic genus Rhabdotogryllus Chopard, 1954 is now incertae sedis in subfamily group Gryllinae.

References

  1. ^ Gorochov (1985) In Medvedev LN [Ed.]: Fauna i ekologiya nasekomykh Vetnama [The fauna and ecology of insects of Vietnam] 15.
  2. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: tribe Sclerogryllini Gorochov, 1985 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 4 October 2024)