SUPERTRIBE OECANTHIDI BLANCHARD, 1845 SUPERTRIB. NOV.

Oecanthites Blanchard, 1845: 245. Saussure, 1874: 428. Saussure, 1878: 590.

Type genus: Oecanthus Serville, 1831 .

Distribution: Worldwide.

Diagnosis: Small to medium and generally slender crickets; head prognathous; pronotum longer than wide, caudal margin wider than cephalic margin in dorsal view; FWs generally hyaline; when present, mirror well developed, generally divided by two straight and parallel veins (Fig. 6B; Supporting Information, Fig. S3H); apical field generally absent or sometimes shorter than mirror; auditory tympana oval and large present on inner and outer face of TI; inner ventral apical spur of TI and TII absent; FIII thin, proximal portion with similar width of distal portion in lateral view; dorsal spines of tarsomere of leg III absent (Fig. 7A); claws bifid (Fig. 6C; Supporting Information, Fig. S6G). Male genitalia: ectophallic arc curved anteriorly; ectophallic apodeme generally short (Supporting Information, Fig. S8G).

Included tribes: Oecanthini Blanchard, 1845, Xabeini Vickery & Kevan, 1983

Incertae sedis: Paraphasius Chopard, 1927, Apiculatus Yuan, Ma & Gu, 2022 (fossil), Birmanioecanthus Yuan, Ma & Gu, 2022 (fossil).