Aphonoides, Chopard, 1940

Tan, Ming Kai, 2022, The diversity and taxonomy of Aphonoidini (Orthoptera: Gryllidae; Podoscirtinae) from Singapore, Zootaxa 5209 (4), pp. 441-454 : 442

Aphonoides ? cinereus ( Haan, 1844)

( Figs 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5)

Gryllus ( Eneoptera) cinereus — Haan, 1844: 232

Aphonus cinereus — Saussure, 1878: 802; Casto de Elera, 1895: 222

Aphonomorphus cinereus — Kirby, 1906: 105; Bruner, 1915: 266

Aphonoides cinereus — Chopard, 1969: 382

Aphonoides ? cinereus — Gorochov, 2007 [2006]: 242 [see remarks below]

Specimen examined. SINGAPORE • 1♂; Dairy Farm Nature Park; secondary forest after village; on foliage of a palm; 2 September 2022, nighttime; leg. M. K. Tan; genitalia dissected and leg preserved in ethanol

Other specimens examined (genitalia not examined). SINGAPORE • 1♂; Bukit Timah; forest; malaise trap; 20 August 1970; leg. D. H. Murphy; ZRC _ ENT00050528

Type locality. Type series

Distribution. New Guinea, Sulawesi (Tondano), Java ( Haan, 1844); Malay Peninsula (Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Kutu [ Chopard, 1969], Penang [ Gorochov, 2007 (2006)], SINGAPORE [new locality]); Borneo (Tawai in Sabah) ( Gorochov, 2007 [2006])

Remarks. Chopard (1969) redescribed the species Aphonoides cinereus ( Haan, 1844) and suggested that this species is widely distributed in the Oriental Region. Gorochov (2007 [2006]) instead, postulated that the syntypes may belong to different species, but the genitalia could not be examined for these specimens. The genitalia and the description of Aphonoides ? cinereus sensu Gorochov (2007 [2006]) were based on specimens from Penang in Malay Peninsula and Tawai in Borneo. The specimen collected from Singapore shares genitalic characters of the specimens from Borneo and Malay Peninsula. It has the minutely and faintly indented apex of the posterolateral epiphallic lobe and the lateral view of genitalia most similar to Aphonoides ? cinereus from Borneo; the ectoparamere most similar to Aphonoides ? cinereus from Penang. The spermatophore does not resemble that from Borneo.