Systematic position of <i>Tympanogryllus</i> Gorochov, 2001 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae) with description of a new species from the Papuan Region
The genus Tympanogryllus Gorochov, 2001 included species from New Guinea and Solomon Islands is synonymized under the widely distributed genus Phonarellus Gorochov, 1983 as a subgenus Phonarellus (Tympanogryllus) syn. et stat.n., on the basis of characters of a new species from Papua New Guinea, Ph. (T.) primitivus sp.n., possessing male tegmina transitional between those of the species of the Tympanogryllus and the Phonarellus . Strong stridulatory apparatus in Tympanogryllus could developed for provision of better penetration of the song sound throughout a soil layer covering the song burrow of this species as it was shown for Ph. (T.) cyclopterus (Gorochov, 2001) in a course of the natural observations in Indonesian part of New Guinea.