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Mecopodinae
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Mecopodinae are a subfamily of bush crickets found in western South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. In Asia, the distribution includes India, Indochina, Japan, the Philippines, and Malesia to Papua New Guinea and Australasia, including many Pacific islands.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Collections
- ANSP
- Recorded in
- South Africa
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Tettigoniidae
- Image
- Mecopoda elongata1.jpg
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- taxon name
- Mecopodinae
- taxon rank
- subfamily
- Commons category
- Mecopodinae
- taxon common name
- Long-legged Katydids
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Tribes and genera
- Acridoxenini
- [[Aprosphylini]]
- Leproscirtini
- [[Mecopodini]]
- Pomatonotini
- [[Sexavini]]
- [[Tabariini]]
- Tribe unallocated
- References
Mecopodinae are a subfamily of bush crickets found in western South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. In Asia, the distribution includes India, Indochina, Japan, the Philippines, and Malesia to Papua New Guinea and Australasia, including many Pacific islands.
Mecopodinae are characterized by their leaf-like forms, but are sometimes called "the long-legged katydids". It is a paraphyletic grouping that is part of the Phaneropteroid clade: sister to Phaneropterinae and Pseudophyllinae. Although , Orthoptera Species File places Mecopodinae within the family Tettigoniidae, the family Phaneropteridae has been recommended for reinstatement, with subfamilies Mecopodinae, Pseudophyllinae, Phyllophorinae, and Phaneropterinae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mecopodinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.