Svistella Explained

Svistella^[1] is an Asian genus of "sword-tail crickets", in the subfamily Trigonidiinae and has now been assigned to the tribe Trigonidiini.^[2]

Species

Svistella species are recorded from: Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra. The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

• Svistella anhuiensis He, Li & Liu, 2009
• Svistella argentata Ma, Jing & Zhang, 2019
• Svistella bifasciata (Shiraki, 1911)
  type species (as Paratrigonidium bifasciatum Shiraki)
• Svistella chekjawa Tan & Robillard, 2012
• Svistella dubia (Liu & Yin, 1993)
• Svistella fallax He, Li & Liu, 2009
• Svistella fuscoterminata He & Liu, 2018
• Svistella rufonotata (Chopard, 1932)

Notes and References

1. Gorochov AV (1987) In Medvedev LN [Ed.]: Entomofauna Vietnama (Entomological fauna of Vietnam) 12.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1126756 Orthoptera Species File (version 5.0: retrieved 22 August 2020)