Loxoblemmus Saussure, 1877 . Mem. Soc. Geneve, 25, 249.

Type. Loxoblemmus equestris Saussure.

Distribution range. Southern Asia, Philippines, Japan, Queensland, Madagascar, Tropical Africa.

General shape rather slender; head usually small; vertex short, almost horizontal, forming between the antennae a truncated or more or less angular rostrum. Face of the males flattened, strongly oblique; in the females, it is only weakly flattened; anterior ocellus situated on the inferior face of the frontal rostrum. The head of the male is always strongly flattened in front and the females are perfectly distinct from Gryllus .