Trigonidium humbertianum (Saussure) 1878

Mal, Jhabar, Nagar, Rajendra & Swaminathan, R., 2014, Record of Natula matsuurai Sugimoto (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Trigonidiinae) and other sword-tailed crickets from India, Zootaxa 3760 (3), pp. 458-462 : 460

Trigonidium humbertianum (Saussure) 1878

1878. Homoeoxiphus humbertianus Saussure, Mem. Soc. Geneva, 25, 468, Pl. 17 (XLVIII), Bolivar, 1900, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 68 (1899), 805.

1924. Metioche humbertiana Chopard, Rec. Ind. Mus., 26, 188.

1925. Trigonidium humbertianum Chopard, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (9) 15, 525. Chopard, 1936, Ceylon. J. Sc., (B) 20, 48. Sandrasagara, 1954, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc., 52, 552

Description of species. Elytra presenting exactly the same venation in both sexes, with straight and parallel veins; false vein between the principal veins. Elytra longer, less convex, wings usually caudate. Head and pronotum black in color; V-joint of maxillary palpi large and triangular. Pronotum transverse, rounded above, black. Anterior tibia with inner and outer tympanum, anterior and medium legs wholly black or with femora partly yellowish brown and posterior legs wholly yellowish. Elytra bluish- black, shining as long abdomen subgenitial plate of male conical, feebly notched at apex, cerci yellowish in color. Ovipositor compressed, curved, and acute at apex [Plate III].

Materials examined (56 specimens). India: Rajasthan: 4♂ 4♀ Dungarpur 4.x.2007, 3♂ 4♀ Revdar 3.x.2007; 1♂ 3♀ Bhilwara 14.x.2007, 2♀ Banswara 20.x.2012, 1♀ Rajsamand 28.x.2012, 3♂ 3♀ Jodhpur 17.xi.2012, 7♂ 4♀ Udaipur 2006–2013, 2 ♂ Chittorgarh 7.i.2013; Gujarat: 2♂ Anand 26.vii.2012; Madhya Pradesh: 1♂ 1♀ Mandsaur xi. 2012; Maharashtra: 3♂ 8♀ Akola 6.x.2013.

Distribution. India and S.E. Asia.