''Phalangopsis''
[Serville (1831) ''Ann. Sci. nat.'' 22(86): 166.] is a
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In biogeogra ...
genus of
crickets
Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets and more distantly, to grasshoppers. In older literature, such as Imms,Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) ''A General Textbook of Entomology'' 9th Ed. Methuen 886 ...
(Orthoptera:
Ensifera
Ensifera is a Order (biology), suborder of insects that includes the various types of crickets and their allies, including cricket (insect), true crickets, Rhaphidophoridae, camel crickets, Tettigoniidae, bush crickets or katydids, Prophalangops ...
) in the family
Phalangopsidae
Phalangopsidae, which includes the "spider crickets" and their allies, is a reconstituted (2014) family of Grylloidea, crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera), with the type genus ''Phalangopsis''. Priority for family-group names based on this genus date ...
, subfamily
Phalangopsinae, tribe Phalangopsini.
Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''
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*'' Phalangopsis arenita'' Mews & Sperber, 2008
*'' Phalangopsis araguaia'' Pereira Junta, Castro-Souza & Lopes Ferreira, 2020
*'' Phalangopsis bauxitica'' Mews & Sperber, 2008
*'' Phalangopsis carvalhoi'' Costa Lima & Costa Leite, 1953
*'' Phalangopsis ferratilis'' Pereira Junta, Castro-Souza & Lopes Ferreira, 2020
*'' Phalangopsis flavilongipes'' Desutter-Grandcolas, 1992
*'' Phalangopsis gaudichaudi'' Saussure, 1874
*'' Phalangopsis kyju'' Pereira Junta, Castro-Souza & Lopes Ferreira, 2020
*'' Phalangopsis kysuia'' Pereira Junta, Castro-Souza & Lopes Ferreira, 2020
*'' Phalangopsis longipes'' Serville, 1831 - type species (by subsequent designation, localities French Guiana, Brazil)
*'' Phalangopsis quartzitica'' Pereira Junta, Castro-Souza & Lopes Ferreira, 2020
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Ensifera genera
crickets
Orthoptera of South America