Sexavaini, Karny, 1924

Morris, Glenn K, Ingrisch, Sigfrid, Willemse, Fer, Willemse, Luc, De Luca, Paul A. & Klimas, Dita, 2025, Stridulation songs of some Tettigoniidae (Ensifera, Orthoptera) from Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 5600 (1), pp. 1-81 : 32

Sexavaini, Karny, 1924

Sexava-group of genera, Segestidea

Two mecopodine species, found together on Mt. Kaindi and closely allied to each other, could not be identified to any known taxon, neither genus nor species. They could be placed with confidence in the Mossula -group of genera and will be described below. At the same time, it became clear that with the exception of the Sexava group of genera, the arrangement of the remainder of the Sexavini into either the Mossula or Phricta -group of genera or even the tribal classification of Mecopodini , is sometimes arbitrary, resulting in unexpected resemblance of some taxa which have been arranged quite distantly from each other. Two examples are noted here. Monotypic Phrictaeformia C. Willemse, 1961 , arranged under the Phricta -group (C. Willemse 1961b, Beier 1966) is much the same as monotypic Huona Kuthy, 1910 , arranged under the Mossula -group ( Kuthy 1910, Karny 1924 a, Kaestner 1934, C. Willemse 1961b, Beier 1966). Monotypic Kheilia I. Bolivar, 1898 is arranged under the nominate tribe of Mecopodini (Beier 1966) , but seems to be identical to monotypic Albertisiella , erected by Griffini (1908) for Diaphlebus acanthodiformis Brunner v. Watt., 1898 and classified under the Mossula -group of genera (e.g., Karny 1924a, C. Willemse 1961b, Beier 1966). Apparently, part of the subfamily is much in need of revision.