Schizodactylidae is a family of orthopteran insects found in Asia and southern Africa, known as dune crickets or splay-footed crickets.

They are usually found in desert and sandy areas.

Species are predatory, including Schizodactylus inexspectatus.

[2] T. B. Fletcher notes that one captive individual did not feed on any vegetable matter.

[4] One extinct and two extant genera in the subfamily Schizodactylinae[5] are included: Authority: Brullé, 1835; distribution: mainland Asia