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Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister, 1838

Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister, 1838: Fig.17 (reproduced with permission). female, dorsal view(body length 25 - 34.2 mm). (Otu).
Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister, 1838: Fig.17 (reproduced with permission). female, dorsal view(body length 25 - 34.2 mm). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1496401; 59b162aa-bea2-4df3-9cc0-101eaf1b5a05: male, dorsal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1496401; 59b162aa-bea2-4df3-9cc0-101eaf1b5a05: male, frontal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1496401; 59b162aa-bea2-4df3-9cc0-101eaf1b5a05: male, foreleg (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1496401; 59b162aa-bea2-4df3-9cc0-101eaf1b5a05: label (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1496401; 59b162aa-bea2-4df3-9cc0-101eaf1b5a05: labels (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536208; NMBA 3225433, e3e8a10b-0c96-4663-8c4c-b0c420c0443d: female, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536208; NMBA 3225433, e3e8a10b-0c96-4663-8c4c-b0c420c0443d: female, frontal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536209; NMBA 3226372, d6ac422e-d751-48ba-8f26-bd921b28b9f4: female, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536210; NMBA 3226370, a7e4230a-8abe-4dca-b227-470d884bd351: male, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536211; NMBA 3226371, 5ea2555c-03d5-4546-af78-8f3d738cf01f: male, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1575895; 28dfd54c-367b-41f7-9bf8-424c4d6e36f4: female, dorsal view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1575895; 28dfd54c-367b-41f7-9bf8-424c4d6e36f4: female, frontal view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1575895; 28dfd54c-367b-41f7-9bf8-424c4d6e36f4: label (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1575895; 28dfd54c-367b-41f7-9bf8-424c4d6e36f4: labels (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1575896; f5b4c26c-afc0-4199-a5f7-86b679d4c78a: male, dorsal view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1575896; f5b4c26c-afc0-4199-a5f7-86b679d4c78a: label (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1575896; f5b4c26c-afc0-4199-a5f7-86b679d4c78a: labels (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (26)

  • Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister, 1838: 739. (valid)
  • Gryllotalpa oryctes Scudder, 1869: 22.

    Syntype; female; 8df2b085-9c3f-4b51-9090-b2cfc364fe19; deposited at: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ); China: Shanghai

  • Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister, 1838 in Liu, 2022: 425.
  • Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister, 1838 in Sun, Guan, Huang & Xu, 2023

References (24)

  • Beauvois Ambroise Marie François Joseph (1820) Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en Amérique dans les royaumes d'Oware à Saint–Domingue et dans les États–Unis pendant les années 1786–1797. In Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en Amérique dans les royaumes d'Oware à Saint–Domingue et dans les États–Unis pendant les années 1786–1797. Paris. Vol. 14, 225–240 pp. Available at http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN61613617X
  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1838) Kaukerfe, Gymnognatha (Erste Hälfte: Vulgo Orthoptera). In Handbuch der Entomologie. Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin. Vol. 2, Issue I-VIII, 397–756 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25467340#page/13/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1869) Revision of the large, stylated fossorial crickets. Memoirs of the Peabody Academy of Science, 1, 3–28. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=iPU-AQAAMAAJ
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
  • Townsend, B.C. (1983) A revision of Afrotropical mole-crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 46(2), 175–203. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis46entolond
  • Ingrisch, S. (1990) Grylloptera and Orthoptera s.str. from Nepal and Darjeeling in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Spixiana (Munich), 13, 149–182. Available at http://archive.org/details/spixiana1990zool
  • Yin, H. & Liu, X.-W. (1995) Synopsis on the classification of Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea from China. Shanghai Scientific & Technological Literature Publishing House, Shanghai, 239 pp.
  • Ichikawa, A., Murai, T. & Honda, E. (2000) Monograph of Japanese crickets (Orthoptera; Grylloidea). Bulletin of the Hoshizaki Green Foundation, 4, 257–332.
  • Ingrisch, S. & Garai, A. (2001) Orthopteroid Insects from Ganesh Himal, Nepal. Esperiana, Schwanfeld, 8, 755–770.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2004) Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 280 pp. [in Russian]
  • Kim, I., Cha, S.-Y., Yoon, M.-L., Hwang, J.-S., Lee, S.-M., Sohn, H.-D. & Jin, B.-R. (2005) The complete nucleotide sequence and gene organization of the mitochondrial genome of the oriental mole cricket, Gryllotalpa orientalis (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae). Gene (Amsterdam), 353(2), 155–168.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. & Paik, J. (2007) Orthoptera of Korea.
  • Shishodia, M.S., Chandra, K. & Gupta, S.K. (2010) An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 314, 1–366. Available at http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/documents/document-9a5b06fa-7416-49a2-98d7-541bfbfbeaaf/239.pdf
  • Ma, L. & Zhang, Y.-L. (2011) Redescriptions of two incompletely described species of mole cricket genus Gryllotalpa (Grylloidea; Gryllotalpidae; Gryllotalpinae) from China with description of two new species and a key to the known Chinese species. Zootaxa, 2733, 41–48.
  • Kim, T. & Puskás, G. (2012) Check-list of North Korean Orthoptera based on the specimens deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Zootaxa, 3202, 1–27.
  • Han, L., Liu, H.-Y. & Shi, F. (2015) The investigation of Orthoptera from Huagaoxi Nature Reserve of Sichuan, China. International Journal of Fauna and Biological Studies, 2(1), 17–24. Available at http://www.faunajournal.com/vol2Issue1/Issue_feb_2015/2-2-37.1.pdf
  • Storozhenko, S.Y., Kim, T. & Jeon, M.-J. (2015) Monograph of Korean Orthoptera. National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, 377 pp.
  • Tan, M.K. (2016) Annotated checklist and key to species of Gryllotalpa (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) from the Oriental region. Zootaxa, 4132(1), 77–86.
  • He, Z. (2018) A checklist of Chinese crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidea). Zootaxa, 4369(4), 515–535. Available at http://www.researchgate.net/publication/322309036_A_checklist_of_Chinese_crickets_Orthoptera_Gryllidea
  • Yap, S.A. & Robillard, T. (2019) Oriental Mole Cricket Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister 1838 (Gryllotalpidae). In Encyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World. China Agricultural University Press, Beijing. pp. 222–224.
  • Frank, J.H. (2020) The identity of the adventive Gryllotalpa Latreille species (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) in Hawaii, with illustration of male genitalia of G. orientalis Burmeister. Insecta Mundi, 747, 1–8. Available at http://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/120108
  • Liu, H.-Y. (2022) Evaluation of the Threat Situation of Crickets Suborder Insects in China. 461 pp.
  • Sun, K., Guan, D.-L., Huang, H. & Xu, S.-Q. (2023) Genome survey sequencing of the mole cricket Gryllotalpa orientalis. Genes, 14(2), 1–7. Available at http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/14/2/255

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