PODOSCIRTINAE SAUSSURE, 1878 DEFIN.

Campos, Lucas Denadai De, Dias, Pedro Guilherme Barrios De Souza, Audino, Jorge Alves, Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure & Nihei, Silvio Shigueo, 2023, The fifth family of the true crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera: Grylloidea), Oecanthidae defin. nov.: phylogenetic relationships and divergence times, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197 (4), pp. 1034-1077 : 1052

SUBFAMILY PODOSCIRTINAE SAUSSURE, 1878 DEFIN. NOV.

Podoscirtites Saussure, 1878: 693, Saussure, 1893: 257.

Eneopterinae Kirby, 1906: 92 , Chopard, 1968: 365, Chopard, 1969: 326. Vickery, 1977: 14, Otte & Alexander, 1983: 1–477.

Eneopteridae Kevan, 1977: 40 .

Podoscirtidae Bruner 1916: 416 , Chopard, 1951: 491, Desutter, 1987: 224, Desutter, 1988: 361.

Podoscirtinae Gorochov, 1986: 519 , Otte, Alexande & Cade, 1987: 448, Vasanth, 1993: 114, Otte, 1994: 72, 86. Oshiro, 1995: 37, Yin, Haisheng & Liu, 1995: 213, Ingrisch, 1997: 48, Gorochov, 2002: 303–350, Gorochov, 2003: 267-303, Gorochov, 2004: 33, Gorochov, 2005: 181– 208, Gorochov, 2006: 33–46, Gorochov, 2007: 237–289, Gorochov, 2008: 15, Gorochov, 2010: 205–245, Gorochov, 2011: 216–270, Gorochov, 2013: 15–58, Gorochov, 2015: 31–41, Anso, Jourdan & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016: 30, Desutter-Grandcolas, Anso & Jourdan, 2016: 436, Gorochov, 2017: 11–106, Gorochov, 2018: 77–121, Rentz & Su, 2019: 124, Gorochov, 2020: 248, Gorochov, 2021: 65, Gorochov, 2021: 381–389, Zheng et al., 2021: 401.

Type genus: Podoscirtus Serville, 1838 .

Distribution: Worldwide.

Diagnosis: Small to large-sized, body generally fusiform, intensely covered by bristles, with developed FWs, sometimes with stridulatory apparatus not developed. TIII with five or more outer and inner subapical spurs. Apex of dorsal valves of ovipositor serrulate laterally and ventrally, covering ventral valves laterally and sometimes ventrally ( Fig. 9B, C ). Male genitalia: apex of ectophallic fold bilobate; posterior projection of endophallus double (U-shaped) ( Fig. 9A ) when present; EndAp generally flattened laterally.

Included supertribes and genera: Podoscirtidi Saussure, 1878 supertrib.nov., Hapithidi Gorochov, 1986 supertrib. nov.

Incertae sedis: Allopterites Cockerell, 1920 (fossil), Stenogryllodes Chopard, 1936 (fossil).

Figures

Figure 9. A, Ultratrella gracilis, male genitalia, ventral view. B, Taroba elephantina, apex of ovipositor: a, dorsal view, b, ventral view. C, Idiotrella karnyi, apex of ovipositor: a, dorsal view, b, ventral view. Scales: 1mm. Abbreviations: see Material and methods.