Phalangopsidae Blanchard 1845

Family PHALANGOPSIDAE Blanchard, 1845

REMARK

The monophyly of the Phalangopsidae cricket family was attested by the molecular phylogenetic analyses of Chintauan-Marquier et al. (2013, 2016), provided it includes part of the Gryllomorphinae crickets (previously classified within the Gryllidae Laicharting, 1781), and excludes the Pteroplistinae Chopard, 1936, which relationships within Grylloidea remain unclear. The resultant topology implied however that the subfamilies usually considered within the Phalangopsidae, at the exception of the Phaloriinae (sensu Desutter-Grandcolas 2015, i.e. including Megacris Desutter-Grandcolas, 2012) which were always recovered monophyletic, were to be critically reviewed: as a consequence, the morphological characters that were traditionaly used to define those subfamilies have to be reevaluated. Phalangopsidae is the most diverse family within Grylloidea and the study of Chintauan-Marquier et al. (2013, 2016), although based on 65 terminals, took into account only a fraction of the phalangopsid clade: for this reason, no classification was derived from the topology proposed by Chintauan-Marquier et al. (2013, 2016). Instead, additional terminals and additional markers were sequenced and are presently under study (see Warren et al. 2019 for preliminary results and discussion). In the present paper, the genera are classified within the subfamilies listed in Cigliano et al. (2020).