Family TETTIGONIIDAE
Compiler and date details
May 2012 - Alice Wells, Australian Biological Resources Study
January 2006
Introduction
The katydids are characterised by having an advanced stridulatory mechanism. In all but a single subfamily, the Phyllophorinae, the stridulatory mechanism is located on a homologus vein of the tegmen. Males of the majority of species are winged, either fully winged or with reduced wings. A small number are wingless and females of many species are wingless. Most are phytophagous but a full range of feeding types is ilustrated in the group.
Many subfamilies are recognised and several have been elevated to familial status. The Australian component is important, contributing at least 1200 species to the approximately 6000 species known. Several subfamilies are endemic to Australia. These are the Microtettigoniinae, the Zaprochilinae, Austrosaginae and Phasmodinae.
Excluded Taxa
TETTIGONIIDAE: Agraecia Serville, 1825, see Rentz, D.C.F. 2009. Nomenclatural Changes in Australian Tettigoniidae. Zootaxa 2221: 67–68 [67].
TETTIGONIIDAE: Anelytra Redtenbacher, 1891, see Rentz, D.C.F. 2009. Nomenclatural Changes in Australian Tettigoniidae. Zootaxa 2221: 67–68.
TETTIGONIIDAE: Dicranocercus Redtenbacher, 1891, see Rentz, D.C.F. 2009. Nomenclatural Changes in Australian Tettigoniidae. Zootaxa 2221: 67–68.