Cacoplistes Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1873

Meena, Ashok Kumar, Swaminathan, Rajamani & Nagar, Rajendra, 2019, A new species of the cricket genus, Cacoplistes from Rajasthan, India (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae: Cachoplistinae: Cachoplistini), Zootaxa 4700 (4), pp. 479-486 : 480

Genus Cacoplistes Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1873

Cacoplistes Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1873: 169 ; Kirby, 1906: 61; Chopard, 1969: 228; Gorochov, 2003: 79.

Cachoplistus Saussure, 1877: 325 ; Chopard, 1968: 253; Gorochov, 1986: 854; Otte, 1994: 62; Yin & Liu, 1995: 88. (syn.) Type species: Cachoplistus brunnerianus Saussure, 1877 (by subsequent designation)

Diagnosis: Body medium-sized. Head is small and globular. Pronotum subquadrate, excavated in center; lateral margins distinctly bordered. Tegmen extending to apex of abdomen, presenting with a large mirror and numerous oblique veins in male. Transverse sections of all tibiae quadrangular; fore tibia with a small round internal tympanum; hind tibia with two rows of numerous very short denticles on upper side and 6 spurs at apex. Male genitalia with epiphallus with membranous window, one or two pairs of ectoparameres.

The genus comprises two subgenera: Cacoplistes Brunner von Wattenwyl 1873 ; and Laminogryllus Gorochov, 2003 ).