Annotated catalogue of Pakistani Acrididae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea)
Author
Sultana, Riffat
Department of Zoology, University of Sindh-Pakistan. & Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843 - 2475 USA.
Author
Song, Hojun
Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843 - 2475 USA.
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-07-24
5486
1
1
47
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.1
1175-5326
13209743
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Family
Acrididae
Fourteen subfamilies of
Acrididae
were studied. As a result of extensive surveys in
Pakistan
including its two adjacent territories, a total of 1,242 specimens were collected. Of the 169 species (including subspecies) of
Acrididae
belonging to 14 subfamilies, 29 tribes and 66 genera with distinct species counts, the subfamily
Oedipodinae
stands out as the largest subfamily, including 56 species.
Gomphocerinae
follows closely with 30 species, while
Acridinae
and
Calliptaminae
include 15 species and 12 species, respectively.
Eyprepocnemidinae
comes next with 12 species,
Hemiacridinae
with 10 species, and
Oxyinae
is represented by 9 species.
Cyrtacanthacridinae
is represented by 8 species, followed by
Catantopinae
with 7 species while
Tropidopolinae
and
Teratodinae
each includes 3 species.
Spathosterninae
includes 2 species, and
Coptacrinae
and
Melanoplinae
are each represented by a single species (
Table.1
). Among them, three were endemic species, 11 rare species, and seven species, e.g.,
Hieroglyphus concolor
,
Oxyina javana
,
O. sinobidentata
,
Oxya nitidula
,
Sphodromerus undulatus pedestris
,
Scintharista notabilis cinctipes
, and
Oedipoda fedtschenki fedtschenki
are new records in the inventory of
Pakistan
, including five expected species and 18 with a debatable taxonomic position that were also known while the 12 taxa are currently in the process of identification and are not presented here.