Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 13: new taxa of the subtribe Podoscirtina from Africa
A.V. Gorochov
Abstract. The subtribe Podoscirtina of the tribe Podoscirtini is briefly discussed; it contains 11 Madagascan genera as well as 2–6 African genera, one of which is also known from Madagascar. A subgenus of the genus Kilimagryllus Sjöstedt, 1909 is here considered as a separate genus Brevitrella Gorochov, 2004, stat. nov., with two species: B. madagascarica (Gorochov, 2004), comb. nov., and B. africana (Walker, 1869), comb. nov. The following new taxa of this subtribe are described from Africa: Malawitrella sotshivkoi gen. et sp. nov. and Kilimagryllus bilobulatus sp. nov. from Malawi, K. bilobulatus limpopo subsp. nov., Parametrypa pubescens sp. nov., P. longispinosa sp. nov. and P. dentata sp. nov. from the Republic of South Africa. The new data on other African species of Podoscirtina are given: in particular, Parametrypa spiculata Saussure, 1878 is restored from synonymy with P. fortipes (Walker, 1869) as a subspecies of the latter species (P. fortipes spiculata, stat. nov.); P. viettei Chopard, 1958 is transferred to the predominantly American tribe Paroecanthini, but its generic position remains unclear.
Key words: crickets, taxonomy, Africa, Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Podoscirtinae, Podoscirtini, new taxa
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2021, 30(1): 64-77 ▪ Published online 3 June 2021
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2021.30.1.64 ▪ Open full article 
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