TRIBE XABEINI VICKERY & KEVAN, 1983

Xabeinae Vickery & Kevan, 1983:649.

Xabeini Otte, 1994: 87, Gorochov, 1995: 45, Rentz & Su, 2019: 235.

Type genus: Xabea Walker, 1869 . Distribution: Australasia, Indo-Malaya, Nearctic, Neotropics and Oceania.

Diagnosis: Antennal scape sometimes with a distal tubercle (Fig. 6A); FWs generally developed, except for Leptogryllus and Thaumatogryllus, which are brachypterous or apterous (endemic of Hawaiian Islands). Cerci shorter than FII (Supporting Information, Fig. S4G); TIII subapical spurs absent (Fig. 7A); TIII oav and iav absent; spines, inner and outer apical spurs of tarsomere I of leg III absent (Fig. 7B, C).

Included genera: Genus group Prognathogryllus Zimmerman, 1948: Leptogryllus Perkins, 1899, Prognathogryllus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895, Thaumatogryllus Perkins, 1899; genus group Xabea Vickery & Kevan, 1983: Neoxabea Kirby, 1906, Xabea Walker, 1869