Gryllotalpa obscura Chopard, 1966

Tan, Ming Kai, 2016, Annotated checklist and key to species of Gryllotalpa (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) from the Oriental region, Zootaxa 4132 (1), pp. 77-86 : 80-81

Gryllotalpa obscura Chopard, 1966

Distribution: Nepal (Dhankuta)

Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister, 1838 ( Fig. 5 )

= Gryllotalpa africana = Gryllotalpa fossor (synonym of G. africana ) ( Chopard, 1968)

Remarks. There is some confusion regarding this species and G. africana and G. fossor . Gryllotalpa africana , considered a very common species in Africa, was recorded in various parts of Oriental region by Chopard ( 1931). Later Chopard ( 1968) noted that all G. africana should be more correctly placed under G. fossor . At around the same time ( Chopard, 1968), he conceded that species identified as G. fossor should be more correctly identified as G. orientalis . In the revision by Townsend ( 1983), G. fossor is synonymised under G. africana . Distribution: East Timor, Flores, India, Myanmar, Nepal (Bagmati, Gandaki, Narayani), Pakistan, Peninsular Malaysia (KL & Pahang), Philippines Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sumba, Taiwan (Taichung)

Type locality: Philippines

Figures

FIGURES 2 – 20. Diagrams of the male tegmina (2, 5, 6) and male phallic complex (3, 4, 7 – 20). Illustrations redrawn from literature (Chopard, 1954, 1968; Ingrisch, 1990, 2006; Yang, 1995; Li et al., 2007; Ma et al., 2008; Ma & Zhang, 2010, 2011; Prasanna et al., 2012; Tan, 2012; Tan & Kamaruddin, 2013, 2016; Eades et al., 2016).