Gryllacris (Pardogryllacris) deminuta (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888) comb. nov. (ṪṄDzȃ)

Figure. 7

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Gryllacris deminuta: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888 . Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 38: 338; Griffini, 1909d. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, 20(6): 190; Griffini, 1914b. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 38: 106; Karny, 1928e. Entomologische Mitteilungen, Berlin-Dahlem, 17(3): 208.

Haplogryllacris deminuta: Karny, 1937 . Genera Insectorum, 206: 99; Liu & Xia, 1994. Contributions from the Shanghai Institute of Entomology, 11(1): 100; Jin & Xia, 1994. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 3: 17; Hollier & Maehr, 2012. Revue Suisse de Zool, 119(1): 40; Cadena-Castañeda, 2019. Zootaxa, 4605(1): 85.

Type specimen: female; holotype; Type locality: China; Location of type specimen: Natural History Museum of Geneva, Switzerland .

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, China (Muséum d’histoire naturelle Genève).

Notes. Pardogryllacris was established as a genus by Karny in 1937, and treated as a subgenus of Gryllacris by Ingrisch in 2018, containing 6 species and 2 subspecies distributed in Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka. After checking the holotype of this species, we discovered the characteristics of this specimen that consist with Pardogryllacris: fastigium verticis as wide as scapus (Fig. 7B); cross-veins of forewings dark in color (Fig. 7A); the subgenital plate wide at base area, while posterior area narrows greatly and is concave upwards in semi-cylindrical shape with truncate terminus (Fig. 7C); a narrow elongate flap emerges at the middle part of the subgenital plate, concave upwards towards the posterior area (Fig. 7D). These factors strongly indicate that this species belongs to Gryllacris (Pardogryllacris), instead of Haplogryllacris .

Distribution. Only known distributed from China.