Callogryllus saeedi (Saeed, 2000)

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	Callogryllus saeedi (Saeed, 2000)
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Material examined.

Pakistan, Sindh Prov. • 5♀; Surriya, Riffat ; 23 Aug. 2020; Sanghar 26.0436°N, 68.9480°E GoogleMaps .

Description.

Medium size. Colouration yellow (Fig. 1P View Figure 1 ). Head short, narrow, yellowish shiny, adorned on each side with dark brown line extending from occiput, along eye (Fig. 3E View Figure 3 ). Pronotum as wide as long, barely widening anteriorly with two dark spots on dorsal field (Fig. 5F View Figure 5 ). Elytra reduced. No wings (Fig. 10C View Figure 10 ). Legs yellowish, strongly pubescent. Anterior tibia perforated with oval tympanum on external face. Posterior femora rather thick, brown with rufous base, posterior tibia armed with six long external, four various medio-internal spines (Fig. 7C View Figure 7 ). Abdomen yellow with dark spots on each tergite. Ovipositor long, straight, slender (Fig. 1P View Figure 1 ).

Female: LH 2.1 (mm), LP 2.8 (mm), LT 03 (mm), LF 12 (mm), LT 10 (mm), LO 14 (mm), TBL 17 (mm).

Ecology.

This species was previously reported by Saeed (2000) from Triticum aestivum in Pakistan. We reported the female from Dactyloctenium aegyptium grasses.

Global distribution.

India (this study), Pakistan (Saeed et al. 2000).

Remarks.

During this study, we have reported five females from Sanghar District which are a new record for Sindh province. Our thorough examination shows that this species is similar to C. ovilongus with the exception of a dark slanting band between the compound eyes, and the size of ovipositor: C. saeedi has a smaller ovipositor which is ca. 14 mm while C. ovilongus has a longer ovipositor, ca. 18-20 mm. In addition, the elytra of this female are quite different from those of C. ovilongus .