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Patiscus Stal 1877

  • 1. ICAR Emeritus Scientist Scheme, Department of Entomology, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur (Rajasthan) - 313001 & akmeenaentomology @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8856 - 0250
  • 2. ICAR Emeritus Scientist Scheme, Department of Entomology, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur (Rajasthan) - 313001 & udaiswami 57 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4634 - 9721
  • 3. ICAR Emeritus Scientist Scheme, Department of Entomology, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur (Rajasthan) - 313001 & tatianaswaminathan 1966 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9977 - 6527

Description

Genus Patiscus Stål, 1877

Patiscus Stål, 1877, Defv. Vet. Akad. Forh. 34:51; Chopard, 1969, Fauna India Grylloidea, 2: 400; Yang and Yang, 2012, Zootaxa, 3226:12.

Type species: Euscirtus (Patiscus) dorsalis Stål, 1877.

Diagnosis (Stål, 1877). General shape similar to Euscyrtus, but head elongated and usually narrow with long rostrum; eyes horizontally lengthened. Tegmina reaching up to the 4 th to 7 th abdominal segments, veins parallel, longitudinal; transverse veinlets forming square shaped areolae. Hind wings are short, not much longer than the tegmina.

Composition: The generic name Patiscus was established by C. Stål, 1877 for the first time with Euscirtus (Patiscus) dorsalis Stål, 1877 as the type species by original designation. At present, it includes 11 species (Cigliano et al., 2020) given below:

Patiscus brevipennis Chopard, 1969

Patiscus cephalotes (Saussure, 1878)

Patiscus dorsalis (Stål, 1877)

Patiscus elegans Otte, 2006

Patiscus maesoi (Bolivar, 1889)

Patiscus malayanus Chopard, 1969

Patiscus nagatomii Oshiro, 1999

Patiscus papuanus Gorochov, 1988

Patiscus quadripunctatus Bolivar, 1900

Patiscus tagalicus (Stål, 1877)

Patiscus thaiensis Ingrisch, 1987

Notes

Published as part of Meena, Ashok Kumar, Swaminathan, Rajamani & Swaminathan, Tatiana, 2020, Some lesser known silent crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Euscyrtinae) from the hilly tracts of India, pp. 559-572 in Zootaxa 4881 (3) on page 569, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4283978

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Stal
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Haglotettigoniidae
Genus
Patiscus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Patiscus Stal, 1877 sec. Meena, Swaminathan & Swaminathan, 2020

References

  • Chopard, L. (1969) Orthoptera. Vol. 2. Grylloidea. In: Sewell, R. B. S. (Ed.), The fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, pp. 1 - 421.
  • Yang, J. & Yang, C. (2012) The slim mute crickets, Euscyrtinae (Orthoptera: Grylloidea; Gryllidae; Euscyrtinae) of Taiwan with three new species and lectotype designations of three of Shiraki's species. Zootaxa, 3226 (1), 1 - 45. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3226.1.1
  • Cigliano, M. M., Braun, H., Eades, D. C & Otte, D. (2020) Orthoptera Species file. version 5.0 / 5.0. Available from: http: // Orthoptera. Speciesfile. org (accessed 20 July 2020)