Comidoblemmus Storozhenko & Paik

Yu, Sergey & Paik, Jong Cheol, 2009, A new genus of cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae; Gryllinae) from East Asia, Zootaxa 2017, pp. 61-64 : 61-62

Genus Comidoblemmus Storozhenko & Paik , gen. nov.

Type species: Gryllus nipponensis Shiraki, 1913 , here designated.

Gender. Masculine.

Description. Body small for Gryllinae , dark grey with blackish marks. Head small, globular. Ocelli in frontal view are situated as a high triangular. Interspace between antennal sockets 1.8-1.9 times as broad as antennal socket. Clypeal suture distinct along the whole length, almost straight. Male mandibles not enlarged. Outer tympana large, elongated; inner tympana small, oval. Pronotum transverse, 1.3 times as broad as long. Tegmina in male reaching 7-8th tergites, in female 5th tergite; hind wings vestigial. Hind tibiae with four dorsal movable spines on each side and three pairs of apical spurs. Ovipositor shorter than hind femur.

Male genitalia. Epiphallus with two lateral projections on posterior margin and deep transverse excision between them, the excision broadly rounded, almost straight; ectoparamers small, apical inner lophi of ectoparamers narrow with hook-like apex; spermatophore sac medium-size.

Diagnosis. Comidoblemmus gen. nov. may be distinguished from all known genera of subfamily Gryllinae by having only four dorsal movable spines on each side of hind tibiae (five-seven spines in other Gryllinae ) and similar in this aspect with the genera of the subfamily Nemobiinae (with three-four dorsal spines). Male genitalia similar with Loxoblemmus (sensu Gorochov, 2001), but in the latter genus the middle part of posterior margin of epiphallus between lateral projections is deeply sinuate and forming a pair of short projections or one median subsquare projection.

Species included. A type species only.

Etymology. The generic name originated from the part of generic names of Comidogryllus and Loxoblemmus .