Meloimorpha japonica (Haan, 1844)

Gu, J. X., Dai, L. & Huang, J. H., 2018, Crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea) from Hunan Province, China, Far Eastern Entomologist 373, pp. 8-18 : 16-17

Meloimorpha japonica (Haan, 1844)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Hunan province: Suoxiyu , Cili County, 3.IX 1988, 1♂, leg .

Xianwei Liu ( SEM).

DISTRIBUTION. China (Hunan, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Hubei,

Yunnan, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hainan), India, Korea, Japan.

NOTES. This species has been recorded from Cili County in Hunan province as Ho-

moeogryllus japonicus by Xia & Liu (1993). Later it has been transferred to the genus

Meloimorpha (Ichikawa et al., 2000) .

Taxa Number of Number of Taxa Number Number genera species of genera of species

Gryllidae 26 42 Podoscirtinae 4 5

Eneopterinae 1 1 Sclerogryllinae 1 1

Euscyrtinae 3 3 Trigonidiinae 4 5

Gryllinae 8 20 Phalangopsidae 1 1

Nemobiinae 3 4 Cachoplistinae 1 1

Oecanthinae 1 2

Pentacentrinae 1 1 Total 27 43

The 43 species of Grylloidea recorded from Hunan Province at the present paper belong to 2 families 10 subfamilies and 27 genera ( Table 1). The most diverse subfamily is Gryllinae with 8 genera and 20 species. The most diverse genus in Gryllinae is Loxoblemmus with 6

species, and then followed by Velarifictorus , Teleogryllus and Goniogryllus which have 5

species, 3 species and 2 species respectively, but all of the 5 remaining genera have only a single species each. Furthermore, most genera in other subfamilies have also only a single species except the genus Polionemobius in Nemobiinae , Oecanthus in Oecanthinae , Truljalia in

Podoscirtinae , and Svistella in Trigonidiinae with 2 species each.