Jaiswara Ranjana, Dong Jiajia, Ma Libin, Yin Haisheng, Robillard Tony
Institut de Systématique, Evolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, 140306, Punjab, India.
Zootaxa. 2019 Jan 17;4545(3):301-338. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.3.1.
Subfamily Eneopterinae has been studied for its diversified acoustic modalities and disjunct distribution. The genus Xenogryllus Bolívar, 1890 is one of the oldest genera of the subfamily, and the first genus of the tribe Xenogryllini. Xenogryllus is known for its low-frequency calling songs and wide distribution across Africa and Asia. It is known from six species and has never been subject to formal taxonomic revision and description of acoustic features of their calling songs is lacking. Therefore, this study consists of a detailed taxonomic revision of all the species. We redescribe or append their taxonomic features using external morphological features and internal genitalic structures. We update the list of Xenogryllus by describing three new spe.
