New Records of Oedipodinae (Acrididae: Orthoptera) from Azad Jammu and Kashmir with the Description of a New Species

Morphological and molecular identification of acridid grasshoppers (Acrididae: Orthoptera) from Poonch division, Azad Jammu Kashmir, Pakistan

“…Several researchers have used DNA data in phylogenetic analysis to identify grasshopper species (Chapco & Litzenberger 2002;Mukha et al 2001;Song & Wenzel (2007) Ketmaier et al 2010). Use of DNA data has also been used in combination with morphological data to establish species relationships (Brust 2008 Kirby (1914), Fletcher (1919, Mahmood (1995), Mahmood & Yousaf (1999), Mahmood & Yousaf (2000); ; Azim & Reshi (2010) but nobody has made any effort to identify them on a molecular level either by DNA barcoding or by using any other marker. To remove identification conflicts among 26 morphological species of the family Acrididae from Poonch, and to add species sequences to the international barcode reference library, studies were performed to identify the grasshoppers morphologically and by DNA barcoding.…”

Oriental macropterous leaf-mimic pygmy grasshoppers—genera Oxyphyllum and Paraphyllum (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) and their taxonomic assignment

“…We confirm that species inhabits India and report it from Korba (Chattisgarh) moist deciduous forest, which is for now the southernmost record of the genus and species. Records of the species from Azad Jammu (Pakistan) (Mahmood et al 2004) were regarded dubious since no photographs/ drawings accompanied the record and because Azad Jammu and Kashmir is far from the type locality. We confirm identification of the specimens on the basis of hitherto unpublished photograph (Fig.…”

“…Here we present updated description, measurements and photographs of morphological characters including now O. pennatum from Chhattisgarh. We also present a small, low quality photograph (the only available) of a female specimen from Pakistan, reported by Mahmood et al (2004).…”

“…Two monotypic Asian genera contain macropterous species with relatively narrow scutellum compared to other Cladonotinae-Oxyphyllum Hancock, 1909 from India (including O. pennatum) and Paraphyllum Hancock, 1909 from Borneo (including P. antennatum) (Hancock 1909. Oxyphyllum pennatum Hancock, 1909 was described from a female holotype from India (Darjeeling), and reported only once since the description-from Pakistan (Mahmood et al 2004), but since the locality is rather far from Darjeeling, the record has been considered doubtful hitherto. Paraphyllum antennatum was also described from a female holotype from Borneo (Penrissen Mt.)…”

Towards a better understanding of the genus Scelimena (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae, Scelimeninae): New insights and notes on the taxonomy, ecology, and physiology of the genus in Peninsular Malaysia

“…Malaysian Tetrigidae still remains an understudied group of animals since papers on them mostly highlight taxonomy, i.e., species description and occurrence. Examples of such papers from Peninsular Malaysia are Mahmood et al (2007), Tan and Kamaruddin (2014), Tan and Kamaruddin (2016), Skejo and Bertner (2017), Storozhenko and Pushkar (2017), and Muhammad et al (2018). In Sabah and Sarawak, Ito and Mohamed (2001), Storozhenko (2012), Kočàrek et al (2015), and Skejo et al (2019) also focused on taxonomy, with the exception of a paper by Kuřavová et al (2017) that described Bornean Tetrigidae feeding patterns, offering an ecological insight.…”