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Orthoptera Species File
Species

Trigonidium (Trigonidium) australianum (Chopard, 1925)

yellow-legged trig

Nomenclature (19)

  • Metioche australiana Chopard, 1925: 36.

    Holotype; male; 6333ac72-4633-459e-9cd2-47f7401b91c3; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Australia: Queensland: Herberton

  • Metioche areolata Chopard, 1925: 38.

    Holotype; male; a9525611-40ba-44db-9af6-d47c9c292f11; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Australia: Queensland: Mt. Tambourine

  • Trigonidomorpha sjostedti Chopard, 1925 (subjective synonym of Metioche australiana Chopard, 1925) in Hegg, 2024: 64.
  • Trigonidium (Trigonidium) australianum (Chopard, 1925) in Hegg, 2024: 64.

References (9)

  • Baehr, M. (1989) On some new and rare crickets from northern and north-western Australia (Insecta, Orthopteroidea, Gryllidae). Spixiana (Munich), 12(1), 13–29. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/spixiana1989zool
  • Chopard, L. (1925) Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 46. Gryllidae. Arkiv för Zoologi, 18A(6), 1–57.
  • 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
  • Chopard, L. (1954) Gryllides de Sumba, Florès et Timor. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel, 65, 31–45.
  • Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
  • Hegg, D. (2024) Small crickets of New Zealand (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae and Mogoplistidae), with the description of two new genera and species. European Journal of Taxonomy, 955, 1–87. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.955.2655
  • 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., Alexander, R.D. & Cade, W.H. (1987) The crickets of New Caledonia (Gryllidae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 139, 375–457. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=AV5YYsg-LgAC
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. (2019) A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 398 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486305070

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After distribution in Australia.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1089