HAPITHIDI GOROCHOV, 1986

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 : 1055-1056

SUPERTRIBE HAPITHIDI GOROCHOV, 1986 SUPERTRIB. NOV.

Hapithini Gorochov, 1986 : 521.

Hapithinae Desutter, 1987: 234. Desutter, 1988: 362.

Type genus: Hapithus Uhler, 1864 .

Distribution: Nearctic and Neotropics.

Diagnosis: Small to large-sized, FWs generally developed, stridulatory apparatus, present or absent. Lateral and median ocelli almost aligned ( Fig. 11A ); fifth article of maxillary palpus upcurved almost 90°, sensilla region apical ( Fig. 11B ); pronotum caudal margin convex on the middle. When stridulatory apparatus present: stridulatory file generally sinuous, with stridulatory file on the midlength; bearing one or two transversals harp veins, almost parallel to stridulatory file ( Figs 14B , 15B ). Female subgenital plate concave or with a median invagination. Male genitalia: EctF apex bilobate; endophallus U-shaped.

Included tribes: Aphonomorphini Desutter, 1988 , Cearacesaini Koçak & Kemal, 2010 , Hapithini Gorochov, 1986 , Phyllogryllini Campos , trib. nov.

Remarks: Previously considered a subfamily, we propose this supertribe to organize the classification of Podoscirtinae .

Figures

Figure 11. A, Cearacesa sp., frontal head; B, A. (Aphonomorphus) aff. montanus, maxillary palpus. Scale: 1mm.

Figure 14. A, H. (Hapithus) Ʋagus, male, dorsal habitus; B, Stenogryllus sp., male, pronotum and FW, dorsal view; C, H. (Hapithus) sp., male genitalia, lateral view. Scales: 1mm. Abbreviations: see Material and methods.

Figure 15. A, Phyllogryllus Ʋelutinus, male, dorsal habitus; B, Gryllophyllus sp., male, pronotum and FW, dorsal view. Phyllogryllus sp.: C, frontal head; D, male genitalia, lateral view. Scales: 1 mm. Abbreviations: see Material and methods.