102 urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:73abe0ce-d97c-5d7c-bee5-b8e6e6fe6a17 ARPHA Preprints preprints Pensoft Publishers 10.3897/arphapreprints.e73693 73693 Research Article Gryllidae Agriculture and Forestry Systematics Cenozoic Asia A review of Gryllidae (Grylloidea) with the description of one new species and four new records from the Sindh Pakistan Sultana Riffat riffat.sultana@usindh.edu.pk 1 Sanam Suriya 1 Kumar Santosh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4748-4087 2 Shamsudeen Sheik 3 Soomro Fakhra 4 University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan University of Sindh Jamshoro Pakistan Department of Zoology, Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences , Bahawalpur, Pakistan Department of Zoology, Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Bahawalpur Pakistan Sir Syed college, Kannur University, Kerala, Kerala, India Sir Syed college, Kannur University, Kerala Kerala India Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, Khairpur, Pakistan Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh Khairpur Pakistan

Corresponding author: Riffat Sultana (riffat.sultana@usindh.edu.pk).

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2021 30 08 2021 1 444C69BF-5313-52C3-9CCA-677B79EF7FF0 30 08 2021 30 08 2021 Riffat Sultana, Suriya Sanam, Santosh Kumar, Sheik Shamsudeen, Fakhra Soomro This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The family Gryllidae is reviewed, resulting in the recognition of seventeen species, of which one is Modicogryllus? described herein as new. Four species namely Acheta hispanicus Rambur, 1838, Gryllus septentrionalis F. Walker, 1869 and Callogryllus saeedi (Saeed 2000) and Miogryllus itaquiensis Orsini and Zefa, 2017 recorded as new country and state records. Differences to similar species are given and a taxonomic key to species of the Sindh Pakistan is provided.