The Hexacentrinae, are a subfamily of predatory
bush crickets or katydids. The type genus is ''
Hexacentrus'', which may be known as "balloon-winged" bush crickets/katydids etc., is also the most speciose and widespread in Africa and Asia.
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Description
The group has sometimes been treated as a tribe (as "Hexacentrini") within Conocephalinae, which may be a sister group.[
A.V. Gorochov described the following characters for this subfamily:][
* ]rostrum
Rostrum may refer to:
* Any kind of a platform for a speaker:
**dais
**pulpit
** podium
* Rostrum (anatomy), a beak, or anatomical structure resembling a beak, as in the mouthparts of many sucking insects
* Rostrum (ship), a form of bow on naval ...
of head narrow with simple, moderately long mandibles, without distinct sexual dimorphism;
* flat, wide hind lobe of the pronotum with thoracic sternites having a pair of spines or finger-like processes;
* fore and middle legs have tibiae with long spines, especially on the ventral surface (for predation);
* hind wings (if not shortened) with developed “costal lobe”, and a characteristic thickened crossvein;
* anal plate and epiproct rather simple (no distinct specializations) in both sexes, but male paraprocts have a finger-like process or distinct lobule at their apex.
Genera and Distribution
, the ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following tribes and genera:
South American tribes
Genera have been placed in two tribes, mostly from Ecuador.[
;Ecuanedubini Braun, Chamorro-Rengifo & Morris, 2009
# '' Acanthoraculus'' Braun & Morris, 2009 (1 species)
# '' Ecuaneduba'' Gorochov, 2006 (3 spp.)
;Nubimystrigini Braun, 2016
# '' Nubimystrix'' Braun, 2016 (2 sp.)
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Unplaced genera
# '' Aerotegmina'' Hemp, 2001 (4 spp. E Africa)
# '' Alison'' Rentz, 2001 (4 spp. Australia, New Guinea
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# '' Euhexacentrus'' Hebard, 1922 (1 sp. Philippines)
# '' Glenophisis'' Karny, 1926 (5 spp. Malesia
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# '' Hexacentrus'' Serville, 1831 (28 spp. Africa, SE Asia)
# '' Nepheliphila'' Hugel, 2010 (1 sp. Indian Ocean)
# '' Parahexacentrus'' Karny, 1912 (1 sp. New Guinea)
# '' Parateuthras'' Bolívar, 1905 (2 spp. New Guinea)
# '' Philippicentrus'' Willemse, 1961 (1 sp. Philippines)
# '' Teuthroides'' Bolívar, 1905 (1 sp. New Guinea)
References
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Tettigoniidae
Orthoptera subfamilies
Orthoptera of Africa
Orthoptera of Asia
Orthoptera of South America