Acheta hispanicus Rambur, 1838

Sultana, Riffat, Sanam, Surriya, Kumar, Santosh, R, Sheik Mohammad Shamsudeen & Soomro, Fakhra, 2021, A review of Gryllidae (Grylloidea) with the description of one new species and four new distribution records from the Sindh Province, Pakistan, ZooKeys 1078, pp. 1-33 : 1

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scientific name	Acheta hispanicus Rambur, 1838
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Material examined.

Pakistan, Sindh Prov. • 1♂; Riffat, Surriya ; 23 Aug. 2019; Mithi 24.7436°N, 69.8061°E GoogleMaps .

Description.

Rather large and robust, colouration brownish-yellow (Fig. 1C View Figure 1 ). Head blackish with shining occiput (Fig. 2C View Figure 2 ). Pronotum unicolourous, concave, very slightly widening; anterior and posterior margins almost straight with numerous spots (Fig. 1C View Figure 1 ). Elytra extending to the apex of abdomen, mirror small, obliquely transverse (Fig. 8C View Figure 8 ). Wings long. Legs pale yellowish with numerous hairs. Tibia with eleven pointed spines on either side (Fig. 6C View Figure 6 ). Abdomen yellow, pubescent. Cerci well developed, pointed.

Male: LH 2.17 (mm), LP 2.66 (mm), LT 13 (mm), LF 11 (mm), LT 08 (mm), LT 4.9 (mm), TBL 28 (mm).

Ecology.

The species was recorded from Mithi. Usually, they are found in ditches of soil in rice fields. Weissman et al. (1980) reported that the adults seemed to appear in August but were abundant mid-August to September with a decline observed in October.

Global distribution.

Portugal, Spain: Granada, India, Pakistan ( Cigliano et al. 2020).

Remarks.

This species is a new record from Sindh, Pakistan, and also for Asia. The body is wide and robust in structure compared to the more widely distributed A. domesticus . In our collection only a single male was captured, so more extensive collections are needed to establish its complete distribution.