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genus

Gymnogryllus Saussure, 1877

Type

Gryllus elegans Guérin-Méneville, 1834 type species by subsequent designation of Gymnogryllus Saussure, 1877

Nomenclature (20)

  • Brachytrypus [sic] (Gymnogryllus) Saussure, 1877: 291 [123].

    type species by subsequent designation Gryllus elegans Guérin-Méneville, 1834 in Kirby, 1906: 23

  • Gymnogryllus Saussure, 1877 in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893: 197.
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  • Gymnogryllus Saussure, 1877 in Um Nyobe, Oumarou-Ngoute, Nzoko Fiemapong, Robillard, Ma & Kekeunou, 2023: 592, 594.
  • Gymnogryllus Saussure, 1877 in Tan, Damit, Japir, Chung & Robillard, 2025: 110. Bioacoustics

Nomenclature references (20)

  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1893) Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 13(33), 1–230. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25035
  • Chopard, L. (1967) Gryllides. Fam. Gryllidae; Subfam. Gryllinae (Trib. Grymnogryllini, Gryllini, Gryllomorphini, Nemobiini). In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 10, pp. 213 pp.
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  • 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
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1983) To the knowledge of the cricket tribe Gryllini (Orthoptera, Gryllidae) [in Russian]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 62(2), 314–330. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1983%20%289-12%29/12%20tribe%20Gryllini%20%28russian%29%201983.pdf
  • Gorochov, A.V. (2001) Remarkable examples of convergence and new taxa of Gryllini (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 9(2), 316–350. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2001/126%20Remarkable%20examples%20convergence%202001.pdf
  • Gorochov, A.V. (2011) New species and subspecies of the cricket genus Gymnogryllus Sauss. (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Gryllinae) from South-East Asia and New Guinea. Evraziatskii Entomologicheskii Zhurnal, 10(1), 1–7.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (2022) New and little known taxa of the genera Gymnogryllus and Macrogryllus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae) from Indo-Malayan and Papuan Regions. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 326(1), 3–13. Available at http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_326_1/TZ_326_1_Gorochov.pdf
  • 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
  • Ma, L. & Zhang, Y.-L. (2011) The cricket genus Gymnogryllus (Grylloidea: Gryllidae: Gryllinae: Gryllini) from China with description of six new species. Zootaxa, 2733, 31–40.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.
  • Quayyoom, M.A., Ramzan, M. & Ali, K. (1986) A phenetic approach to the taxonomy of Gryllidae of Faisalabad at generic level. Proceedings of Pakistan Congress of Zoology, 5, 277–283.
  • Randell, R.L. (1964) The male genitalia in Gryllinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) and a tribal revision. The Canadian Entomologist, 96(12), 1565–1607.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. (2019) A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 398 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486305070
  • Tan, M.K. (2012) In Orthoptera in the Bukit Timah and Central Catchment Nature Reserves (Part 2): Suborder Ensifera. Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 70 pp. Available at http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/ensifera_btnr_ccnr.pdf
  • Tan, M.K., Damit, D.F.B.A., Japir, R., Chung, A.Y.C. & Robillard, T. (2025) New data on the calling songs of Gymnogryllus and Macrogryllus (Grylloidea, Gryllinae) from Sabah. Zootaxa, 5692(1), 108–120. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.1.5
  • Tan, M.K., Yong, C.Y.H., Ingrisch, S., Sah, H.H.A., Wahab, R.A. & Johns, P.M. (2018) Inferring species boundaries using acoustic and morphological data in the ground cricket genus Gymnogryllus (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Gryllinae). Systematics and Biodiversity.
  • Um Nyobe, P.C.A., Oumarou-Ngoute, C., Nzoko Fiemapong, A.R., Robillard, T., Ma, L. & Kekeunou, S. (2023) Description of one new species of the genus Gymnogryllus (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Gryllinae) from Cameroon with a key for African species. Zootaxa, 5369(4), 591–596. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5369.4.8
  • Vasanth, M. (1993) Studies on crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Gryllidae) of northeast India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 132(1-6), 1–178. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/occpapers/132/index.pdf
  • Wang, N., Huang, H. & Ma, L. (2022) The intraspecific variation of morphology and coloration of field crickets: a taxonomic revision of Chinese Gymnogryllus Saussure, 1877 and Phonarellus Gorochov, 1983 (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Gryllini). ZooKeys, 1129, 85–107. Available at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/87706/
  • Yin, H. & Liu, X.-W. (1995) Synopsis on the classification of Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea from China. Shanghai Scientific & Technological Literature Publishing House, Shanghai, 239 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek γυμνός (naked), referring to the glabrous body.

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
genus1012
species4002464
subspecies7029