Gryllitara Chopard, 1931

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 : 495

Subgenus Gryllitara Chopard, 1931

Gryllitara Chopard. 1931 . Bull. Raffles Museum 6:138. Chopard, 1969: 325.

Itara (Gryllitara) Gorochov. 1997 . Zoosystematica Rossica 6 (1–2): 49.

Type species: Gryllitara pendleburyi Chopard

Diagnosis ( Gorochov, 1997). Male tegmina with large and slightly transverse mirror; all oblique veins normal, but the distal part of longest of them forming a small cell. Male genitalia with large epiphallus and small spermatophore sac; epiphallus with 3 distal processes; unpaired medial very long (with smooth and characteristically curved apical part) and short paired lateral processes; upper surface of epiphallus without denticles; ectoparameres dilated in proximal part and narrowing towards apex, but not extending at apex of medial process of epiphallus. In the subgenus Gryllitara , the described 5 species are especially in the region of Asia-tropical ( Malaysia) and Asia-Temperate ( China) ( Cigliano et al., 2021).