Seselini Hugel & Desutter-Grandcolas

Hugel, Sylvain, Warren, Ben H. & Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2021, The Phalangopsidae crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea) of the Seychelles Archipelago: Taxonomy of an ecological radiation, Zootaxa 5047 (3), pp. 201-246 : 211

Key to genera of Seselini Hugel & Desutter-Grandcolas n. tribe (adults only)

1. Species with dull brown coloration. Tibiae I with both inner and outer tympana............... Phaeogryllus Bolivar , 1912

1’. Species with very contrasted coloration. Tibiae I with inner tympanum only.......................................2.

2(1). Small crickets (body <10 mm) with short legs. Fastigium wide; ocelli widely separate, even lateral ones............................................................................................... Gryllapterus Bolivar, 1912

2’. Large crickets (body> 15 mm long); legs very elongate. Fastigium narrow, with lateral ocelli very close to one another.....3.

3(2). A continuous yellow band running along the eye, pronotum, forewing and part of abdomen. Tibiae II with three apical spurs. Male forewing without a glandular inner margin......................... Seselia Hugel & Desutter-Grandcolas , n. gen.

3’. Colour contrasted but without such a continuous yellow line. Tibiae II with four apical spurs. Male forewing inner margin glandular with a long setose area.................................................... Phalangacris Bolivar , 1912