I have checked this cricket against the original description and I think this is a female of Gryllomorpha merobricensis Fernandes, 1959, which described it from Serra de Grândola and Santiago do Cacém and suggested that some nymphae collected by Ebner in Monchique and Foia could belong to this species as well.
Gorochov & Llorente, 2001 consider that this is just a subspecies of Gryllomorpha adspersa, a species originally described from Northern Africa, and changed the name to Gryllomorpha adspersa merobricensis Fernandes, 1959. They add new localities from many provinces of Andalucia as far east as Almeria.
I have just received the very sad news that Peter Chandler has died after a fall at home yesterday. I have no other details at the moment. We shall miss him terribly.
Anyone have scans of the Genus Semaranga in:
1)Kanmiya, K. (1983) A systematic study of the Japanese Chloropidae (Diptera).
2) Andersson, H. (1977 Taxonomic and Phylogenetic studies on Chloropid
Dr Michael von Tschirnhaus, a leading expert on Chloropidae and Agromyzidae, died on 16 September 2025 at the age of 86. He will be greatly missed by the international community. R.I.P.
Anyone has the scan of "Harkness, R. D.; Ismay, J. W. 1976: A new species of Trachysiphonella (Dipt., Chloropidae) from Greece, associated with an ant Cataglyphis bicolor (F.) (Hym., Formicidae)
