A Taxonomic Review of the Sword-tailed Cricket Subfamily Trigonidiinae (Orthopter3: Ensifera: Gryllidae) from Korea

The Korean population of the sword-tailed cricket subfamily Trigonidiinae is reviewed for the first time. Four members of the crickets are confirmed based on the examined material, those are Metioche japonica (Ichikawa, 2001), Svistella bifasciata (Shiraki, 1911), Homoeoxipha obliterata (Caudell, 19...

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Published inAnimal systematics, evolution and diversity Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 74 - 83
Main Author Kim, Tae-Woo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Seoul 한국동물분류학회 01.01.2013
Korean Society of Systematic Zoology
Subjects
Ensifera
Gryllidae
Korea
new record
Orthoptera
taxonomy
Trigonidiinae
Trigonidiinae
Orthoptera
new record
taxonomy
Gryllidae
Ensifera
Korea
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Summary:The Korean population of the sword-tailed cricket subfamily Trigonidiinae is reviewed for the first time. Four members of the crickets are confirmed based on the examined material, those are Metioche japonica (Ichikawa, 2001), Svistella bifasciata (Shiraki, 1911), Homoeoxipha obliterata (Caudell, 1927) and Natula matsuurai Sugimoto, 2001, each of them belonging to a different genera. Among them, the former two are reconfirmed since earlier records, and latter two are newly recognized genera and species from the far southern provinces Jeollanam-do and Jeju-do Island in Korea. The type locality of both crickets is Japan, and are also only previously referred to in Japan, but their distributional ranges include neighboring South Korea. A key to the species, descriptions, photographs, figures, and oscillograms of male's calling sounds are provided to aid their identification.
ISSN:2234-6953
2234-8190
DOI:10.5635/ASED.2013.29.1.74