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It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. January 31 2020 INSECTA 8 urn:lsid:zoobank. A Journal of World Insect Systematics org:pub:91351509-1090-4852- UNDI M 85C4-A2435951DFFD 0747 The identity of the adventive Gryllotalpa Latreille species (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) in Hawaii, with illustration of male genitalia of G. orientalis Burmeister J. H. Frank Entomology and Nematology Department Bldg. 970, Natural Area Drive, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-0630, USA Date of issue: January 31, 2020 CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FL J. H. 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Frank Entomology and Nematology Department Bldg. 970, Natural Area Drive, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-0630, USA Abstract. The adventive mole cricket species (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) in Hawaii is apparently Gryllotalpa krishnani Arun Prasanna et al., 2012. The adventive was long thought to be Gryllotalpa africana Palisot de Beau- vois, 1805. From 1983 until 2008 it seemed that Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister, 1839 might be the adventive’s correct name. However, male genitalia and tegmental characters of Hawaiian specimens match features of G. krishnani and not G. orientalis. Key words. Adventive mole cricket, invasive mole cricket, pest mole cricket, identification. Introduction An online version of the Hawaiian Arthropod Checklist Database of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Pyle 2002) listed Gryllotalpa africana Palisot de Beauvois as an adventive species on the islands of Kauai, Maui, and Oahu. Adventive species are those that arrived from elsewhere by some means and are not native; they include those that have arrived by entirely natural means, those that arrived as hitchhikers in cargoes, and those that were introduced deliberately. The online version has been with- drawn for updating, leaving an older, printed version (Nishida 1994). “Gryllotalpa africana” was noted by Perkins (1899) as a new arrival on the island of Oahu and dam- aging to sugarcane. At least by 1923 it was also on the island of Kauai and damaging to newly planted sugarcane and the banks of irrigation ditches (Swezey 1923). Its presence as a harmful adventive species (i.e., an invasive species) prompted a biological control campaign (Williams 1928). The identity of the mole cricket occurring in Hawaii became very questionable when Townsend (1983), decades later, published a revision of Afrotropical species of Gryllotalpa Latreille. He characterized G. africana, including the song and genitalia of the male which have characteristically long ventral processes. He stated that G. africana does not occur outside Africa, and “in Asia and Indonesia it is apparently replaced by G. orientalis [Burmeister], previously thought to be a synonym of [G.] africana.” Graaf et al. (2005) published a report on G. africana in South Africa, re-recorded its song to confirm the earlier analysis by Townsend (1983), and noted that the characteristics of this song do not match the characteristics of the song of mole crickets in Hawaii as given by Nickle and Castner (1984). This confirmed the supposition above that mole crickets in Hawaii are not G. africana. Townsend examined specimens of G. orientalis and designated a lectotype male, but he did not dissect and illustrate the genitalia. It seemed more likely that Hawaii’s pest mole cricket would be an Asian species, and based on statements by Townsend (1983), it might or might not be G. orientalis (Frank and Parkman 1999; Frank and Leppla 2008; Frank et al. 2010). Not until late 2005 was the listing in Orthoptera Species File Online (Cigliano et al. 2019) changed to remove G. orientalis from synonymy with G. africana. There is yet no revision of all species of Gryllotalpa occurring in eastern Asia, although several spe- cies have recently been described albeit without characterization of their songs and without modern redescription of G. orientalis. It is not my intention to revise the eastern Asian species. Evidently, characterization of G. orientalis was needed, and to accomplish this I (1) borrowed the lectotype of G. orientalis designated by Townsend (1983), and (2) borrowed 10 Hawaiian specimens of “G. africana” from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum (BPBM). My objective was to identify the (one, so far as I knew) Gryllotalpa species that occurs in Hawaii because I denied its earlier identification asG. africana. 2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0747, January 2020 FRANK Townsend (1983: 185) stated that “[G.] minuta” is common in the Oriental region but does not occur in Africa” despite the original description (by Burmeister 1839) bearing the words “Vom Kap”, which writers assumed meant from the Cape of Good Hope. The type locality is therefore unclear and is at least as confusing as are Burmeister’s statements of the locality for G. orientalis Burmeister (1839: 739). Ingrisch (1990: 167, fig. 63)