Goniogryllus Chopard, 1936

Guo, Yu-Jiao, An, Shuang-Qi, Fang, Zhen-Gui, Wei, Shu-Fei, Shen, Zi-Hao, Chen, Zhao-Yang & He, Zhu-Qing, 2024, A taxonomic revision of the genus Goniogryllus in China (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae), Arthropod Systematics & amp; Phylogeny 82, pp. 567-584 : 567-584

Genus Goniogryllus Chopard, 1936

Goniogryllus Chopard 1936: 7; Chopard 1967: 118; Ichikawa 1987: 8; Wu and Wang 1992: 231; Yin and Liu 1995: 191; Chen and Zheng 1995: 213–217; Ichikawa and Honda 2000: 261; He 2018: 529; Yang et al. 2019: 16.

Qingryllus syn. (synonymized by He 2018, resurrected by Yang et al. 2019) Chen and Zheng 1995: 70, 75; Liu et al. 2017: 65–70; He 2018: 529; Yang et al. 2019: 20.

Type species.

Goniogryllus punctatus Chopard, 1936 .

Diagnosis.

Average size; black head with yellow stripes extending from occiput, along eyes to lateral ocelli, the yellow stripes divided into two branches from the middle of eyes or no bifurcation; maxillary palpus all black or with yellow stripes on the apex of the 4 th joint and the dorsal side of the 5 th joint; pronotum all black or with yellow spots or stripes on both sides, glabrous or pubescent; no wings, scaly wings, short wings, or fully developed wings; abdomen glabrous or pubescent; long ovipositor.

Remarks.

The molecular analysis reveals that G. ovalatus , Q. striofemorus , and Q. jiguanshanensis form a cohesive clade with strong support. Morphologically, they share similarities such as processing a pair of yellow-brown longitudinal stripes on each side of the head, and the absence of a tympanum on the fore tibia. Moreover, their male genitalia exhibit resemblances. They are often found in the same collection sites (Fig. 2 ). Based on these findings, we conclude that Q. striofemorus and Q. jiguanshanensis are the long-wing forms of G. ovalatus . We treat Qingryllus syn. as a junior synonym of Goniogryllus . Additional information can be found in the diagnosis of G. ovalatus . A diagnosis for species is provided in Table 2 .

Figures

Figure 2. Distribution map of partial Goniogryllus based on the new classification including type distribution in China.