Itara Walker, 1869

Meena, Ashok Kumar, Swaminathan, Rajamani, Nagar, Rajendra, Chhangani, Gaurang & Kumar, Kuldeep, 2021, Record of the subgenus, Gryllitara Chopard, 1931 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Itarinae) and description of a new species from India, Zootaxa 5072 (5), pp. 493-500 : 496

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.5.6
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5750559
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scientific name	Itara Walker, 1869
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Subgenus Itara Walker, 1869 View in CoL

Itara (Itara) Gorochov. 1997 View in CoL . Zoosystematica Rossica 6 (1–2): 49, Note: key to subgenera.

Type species: Itara sericea Walker View in CoL , by original monotypy

Diagnosis ( Gorochov, 1997). According to Gorochov, subgenus Itara is more similar to Phormincter and Gryllitara but following variations are observed in the male genitalia, especially in epiphallus with three distal processes, middle one undivided, but longer than lateral processes and a pair of medium sized lateral processes; apical part of ectoparameres are C-shaped or sometimes slightly differently shaped. At present this subgenus includes 15 species world-wide ( Cigliano et al., 2021).