Oecanthus fultoni Walker, 1962

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	Oecanthus fultoni Walker, 1962
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Oecanthus fultoni Walker, 1962 View in CoL

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Material examined.

Pakistan, Sindh Prov. • 1♀; Riffat ; 16 Aug. 2020; Umerkot 25.3549°N, 69.7376°E GoogleMaps .

Description.

Large size. Colouration light pale green to yellowish (Fig. 1T View Figure 1 ). Head short, narrow with dark brown ocelli (Fig. 3I View Figure 3 ). Pronotum flat, concave posteriorly (Fig. 5J View Figure 5 ). Elytra, transparent, extending to 2/3 of abdomen. Wings rounded, broad, with condensed irregular veins (Fig. 10G View Figure 10 ). Legs same colour as body. Femora long, thin, slightly wider at anterior and compressed at posterior. Posterior tibia thin, slender, armed with 21 external and three medio-internal spines (Fig. 7F View Figure 7 ). Abdomen pale yellowish. Ovipositor short. Cerci long with pointed ends (Fig. 1T View Figure 1 ).

Female: LH 1.96 (mm), LP 2.73 (mm), LT 14 (mm), LF 3.57 (mm), LT 3.85 (mm), TBL 22 (mm).

Ecology.

Oecanthus fultoni is a new record from Umerkot, Desert Thar, Pakistan. This species is reported from Cynadon dactylon (common lawn grasses) surrounded by wild plants.

Global distribution.

Ohio, Franklin, New Jersey, Washington, Pakistan ( Cigliano et al. 2020).

Remarks.

Walker and Gurney (1967) observed differences between populations of this species from the coasts of western and eastern USA showing that O. fultoni displays variations in the structure of the metanotal gland.