Patiscus Stål, 1877

Meena, Ashok Kumar, Swaminathan, Rajamani & Swaminathan, Tatiana, 2020, Some lesser known silent crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Euscyrtinae) from the hilly tracts of India, Zootaxa 4881 (3), pp. 559-572 : 569

Genus Patiscus Stål, 1877

Patiscus Stål, 1877 , Defv. Vet. Akad. Forh. 34:51; Chopard, 1969, Fauna India Grylloidea, 2: 400; Yang and Yang, 2012, Zootaxa, 3226:12.

Type species: Euscirtus (Patiscus) dorsalis Stål, 1877 .

Diagnosis (Stål, 1877). General shape similar to Euscyrtus , but head elongated and usually narrow with long rostrum; eyes horizontally lengthened. Tegmina reaching up to the 4 th to 7 th abdominal segments, veins parallel, longitudinal; transverse veinlets forming square shaped areolae. Hind wings are short, not much longer than the tegmina.

Composition: The generic name Patiscus was established by C. Stål, 1877 for the first time with Euscirtus (Patiscus) dorsalis Stål, 1877 as the type species by original designation. At present, it includes 11 species ( Cigliano et al., 2020) given below:

Patiscus brevipennis Chopard, 1969

Patiscus cephalotes (Saussure, 1878)

Patiscus dorsalis (Stål, 1877)

Patiscus elegans Otte, 2006

Patiscus maesoi (Bolivar, 1889)

Patiscus malayanus Chopard, 1969

Patiscus nagatomii Oshiro, 1999

Patiscus papuanus Gorochov, 1988

Patiscus quadripunctatus Bolivar, 1900

Patiscus tagalicus (Stål, 1877)

Patiscus thaiensis Ingrisch, 1987