Family PODOSCIRTIDAE
Compiler and date details
January 2006
Introduction
Often considered the largest subfamily (or tribe, depending on the classification) of the Eneopteridae. Characters are often vague and overlap with other related groups. Usually with auditory tympana on fore legs, with hind tibia with 4-6 inner and outer subapical spurs; males sometimes without stridulatory file; mirror of tegmen either undivided or divided by a single vein. Live on tree trunks, in tree holes, in grass, on the ground in rainforests or in deserts.