Itarinae Shiraki, 1930

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 : 494

Subfamily Itarinae Shiraki, 1930

Shiraki. 1930. Ins. Matsum. 4: 185.

Chopard [Ed.]. 1969. The Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries 314.

Gorochov. 1997. Zoosystematica Rossica 6 (1–2): 48, 2015. Zoosystematica Rossica 24 (1): 31–41.

Emended diagnosis. The Itarinae crickets are related to the Podoscirtinae , but differ from other members of Gryllidae and, Podoscirtinae in particular, in having the following characters: crickets with a body of mediumsize; head almost spherical, rather small, narrower than posterior width of pronotum, anterior margin of pronotum distinctly narrowed, the lateral lobes never angulate at the anterior corner; metanotal gland well developed. Tegmina and hind wings usually long, longer than body, but sometimes tegmina slightly and hind wings strongly shortened, male tegmina very broad with numerous oblique veins and the first oblique vein being either strongly S-shaped or otherwise. Fore tibiae with outer smaller and open tympanum, while the inner one being larger and slightly invaginated or slit-like. Hind tibiae with small denticles in proximal half; armed with large spines and subapical spurs in distal half. According to Shishodia et al. (2010) and Cigliano et al. (2021), presently 3 subgenera ( Inditara , Itara and Phormincter ) and 5 species have been reported from the Indian subcontinent, which belong to the genus, Itara Walker, 1869 .