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Lepidogryllus parvulus (Walker, 1869)

fast-chirping field crickets
Lepidogryllus parvulus (Walker, 1869): Pl. 12, Fig. 11(1-2), as Gryllus lepidus. male, dorsal view and end of hind tibia. (Otu).
Lepidogryllus parvulus (Walker, 1869): Pl. 12, Fig. 11(1-2), as Gryllus lepidus. male, dorsal view and end of hind tibia. (Otu).

Nomenclature (19)

  • Gryllus parvulus Walker, 1869: 43.

    Holotype; female; 2c04b706-9e40-4db0-a75c-323078842e06; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia: South Australia

  • Gryllus lepidus Walker, 1869: 46.

    Holotype; female; 8e2b8fd7-251b-476d-902e-e707e229f3b7; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia: South Australia

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  • Gryllus lineiceps Walker, 1869 (subjective synonym of Gryllus parvulus Walker, 1869) in Otte, 1994: 12.
  • Lepidogryllus parvulus (Walker, 1869) in Rentz & Su, 2019: 108.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Bhowmik, H.K. (1985) Contribution to the gryllid fauna of the Western Himalayas (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 73, 1–85. Available at https://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/occpapers/073/index.pdf
  • Chopard, L. (1951) A revision of the Australian Grylloidea. Records of the South Australian Museum, 9, 397–533. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127415#page/458/mode/1up
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  • Chopard, L. (1967) Gryllides. Fam. Gryllidae; Subfam. Gryllinae (Trib. Grymnogryllini, Gryllini, Gryllomorphini, Nemobiini). In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 10, pp. 213 pp.
  • de Saussure, H. (1877) Mélanges orthoptérologiques V. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(1), 169–504 [1–352]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35307
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Mjöberg, E. (1913) Preliminary descriptions of some new Australian Gryllids and Forficulids. Entomologisk Tidskrift, 34, 26–64. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11417646#page/44/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. & Alexander, R.D. (1983) The Australian crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 22, 1–477. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=PkvoRnAM6WUC
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. (2019) A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 398 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486305070
  • Walker, F. (1869) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 1, 1–224 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci01britrich
  • Wise, K.A.J. (1991) Further records of the same two species of Orthoptera. The Weta: News Bulletin of Entomological Society of New Zealand, 14, 26–28.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Allusion to small size.

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