Svercus palmetorum (Krauss, 1902)

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	Svercus palmetorum (Krauss, 1902)
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Svercus palmetorum (Krauss, 1902) View in CoL

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Material examined.

Pakistan, Sindh Prov. • 2♀; Surriya, Riffat ; 22 Aug. 2020; Dahli, Tharparkar 24.8777°N, 70.2408°E GoogleMaps .

Description.

Medium size. Colouration rufous brown, shiny (Fig. 1N View Figure 1 ). Head little wider than pronotum in front; occiput convex with frontal rostrum narrow, ocelli united by a small oblique keel (Fig. 3C View Figure 3 ). Pronotum dark brown, slightly broader than long with concave anterior margin, posterior margin feebly convex (Fig. 5D View Figure 5 ). Elytra extending to the apex of abdomen, narrow posteriorly. Wing well developed (Fig. 10A View Figure 10 ). Legs testaceous brown, pubescent. Anterior tibia perforated on external face only. Posterior tibia armed with nine internal, 11 external, one medio-internal spines (Fig. 7A View Figure 7 ). Abdomen brown. Ovipositor rather long, straight with lanceolate apical valves (Fig. 1N View Figure 1 ).

Female: LH 1.8 (mm), LP 2.7 (mm), LT 9.6 (mm), LF 09 (mm), LT 6.6 (mm), LT 03 (mm), TBL 16 (mm).

Ecology.

This species was collected from the village Dahli Taluka Tharparkar Sindh, Pakistan. This species was reported from Larrea tridentate called the creosote bush. It is a medium-sized evergreen shrub with pointed leaves and a waxy coating. This plant has great medicinal value, recommended to cure fever, colds, stomach, pains, arthritis, and as a general pain killer; it is also used for cuts, and bacterial and fungal infections.

Global distribution.

Libya, Algeria, Pakistan ( Cigliano et al. 2020).

Remarks.

Reitmeier et al. (2012) reported this species from Corsica in humid places (except those that were recorded from Bonifacio and Filitosa in September 2010. They further identified the status of this species, its distribution, and life parameters. During our field survey we also noticed that this species occurs in humid places, but we were not able to study its life parameters.