Taxonomic, bioacoustic and faunistic data on a collection of Tettigonioidea from Eastern Congo (Insecta: Orthoptera) Author Heller, Klaus-Gerhard Author Hemp, Claudia Author Liu, Chunxiang Author Volleth, Marianne text Zootaxa 2014 3785 3 343 376 journal article 46051 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.3.2 d4a48a59-b60d-4700-a64d-f2f53b7df12c 1175-5326 250508 730A6AE5-C1C1-414E-8AF6-3C38139B5AE1 Phaneropterinae Within Phaneropterinae a series of tribes exist, based mainly on Brunner von Wattenwyl’s groups (1878). He used, for example, presence or absence of a coxal spine or/and the shape of the ears in the fore tibia as important diagnostic characters. Ragge (e.g. 1960) and Gorochov (e.g. Gorochov & Kang 2002 ) expressed doubts several times that these groups represent natural units, but unfortunately nobody proposed better solutions at present. So we will here continue to use Brunner’s characters and his grouping because it seems to be the best (and only) way to group similarly looking genera together.