A review of Gryllidae (Grylloidea) with the description of one new species and four new distribution records from the Sindh Province, Pakistan

By

Sultana, Riffat
Sanam, Suriya
Kumar, Santosh
Shamsudeen, Sheik
Soomro, Fakhra

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1078

Pages

1--33

Subjects

Acheta , Callogryllus , Miogryllus , Modicogryllus , new distribution record , review , Taxonomic key

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1078.69850

 

Abstract

Seventeen species of the family Gryllidae were reviewed and a Modicogryllus sindhensis is described herein as new. Four species, namely Acheta hispanicus Rambur, 1838, Gryllus septentrionalis F. Walker, 1869, Callogryllus saeedi Saeed, 2000, and Miogryllus itaquiensis Orsini & Zefa, 2017 are recorded as new country and state records. Differences between similar species and a taxonomic key to the species of Sindh are provided.