Depressogryllus Gorochov, 1988

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Genus Depressogryllus Gorochov, 1988

Depressogryllus Gorochov. 1988 . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 67(1):94-95.

Type species: Gryllus depressiceps Ebner by monotypy and original designation

Diagnosis ( Gorochov, 1988): The genus, Depressogryllus is very close to Modicogryllus . It could as well be considered a subgenus of Modicogryllus , but for the very distinct structure of the head that is compressed and the shape of the clypeal suture, indicating that the level of differentiation occurs at the genus level.

Body size is medium, compressed dorso-ventrally, and sparsely pubescent. Head also compressed, uniformly dark coloured and clypeal suture strongly angulated that reaches the median ocelli. Similar clypeal structure can be seen in the genera, Gryllodinus and Tartarogryllus . Depressogryllus depressiceps resembles the genera, Tartarogryllus and Gryllodinus externally, but can be easily distinguished by the structure of male genitalia, by the presence of sclerotized ribbon of ectoparameres at the central or middle lobes that are without the central protrusion along the posterior end of epiphallus.