Studies on Neotropical crickets: New species and notes on the classification of Field Crickets genera Anurogryllus and Gryllus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae)
Author
Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J.
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos “ Kumangui ”, Bogotá, Colombia. Universidad INCCA de Colombia. Grupo en Ecología Evolutiva y Biogeografía Tropical ECOBIT.
Author
Díaz, Carlos Julio Arango
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos “ Kumangui ”, Bogotá, Colombia. Universidad INCCA de Colombia. Grupo en Ecología Evolutiva y Biogeografía Tropical ECOBIT.
Author
López, Víctor Hugo Grande
0000-0003-0475-6975
vhgrandel @ unincca. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0475 - 6975
vhgrandel@unincca.edu.co
Author
Cárdenas, Andrea Del Pilar Floréz
0000-0003-1218-0187
biosilvestres @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1218 - 0187
biosilvestres@yahoo.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-17
4970
3
515
532
journal article
6775
10.11646/zootaxa.4970.3.4
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Anurogryllus
Saussure, 1877
Comments.
This genus is distributed from the
United States
to
Argentina
, including the Greater and Lesser Antilles. Contains 37 species in four recently established subgenera (
Cigliano
et al
., 2021
). They are known by the common name of “Short-tailed cricket” because at least in the subgenus
Anurogryllus
, the ovipositor of females is very short and slightly exceeds the length of the subgenital plate (
Walker, 1973
), females of the other subgenera have a welldeveloped ovipositor, sometimes exceeding the length of the hind femur (
Randell, 1964
;
Gorochov, 2019
), discarding the ovipositor length as a generic character, as was the case in the past, and rather, it is the structure of the male genitalia which defines the genus (
Randell, 1964
; García-Novo, 2002).
Anurogryllus
is very diverse since the range of its distribution has several gaps where in the future many species may be found since the distribution of its species is restricted (except
Anurogryllus
(
Anurogryllus
)
muticus
(De Geer, 1773))
and several examples are sympatric.