Genus

Apteronemobius Chopard, 1929

Wingless Pygmy Field Crickets

Type

type species by original monotypy of Apteronemobius Chopard, 1929

Apteronemobius Chopard, 1929: 29.
type species by original monotypy Apteronemobius longipes Chopard, 1929
Apteronemobius Chopard, 1929 in Yamasaki, 1979: 80.

Chopard, L. (1929) Orthoptera. In Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. British Museum, London. Vol. 1, Issue 2, 9–58 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137691#page/3/mode/1up
Yamasaki, T. (1979) Discovery of the second species of the mangrove cricket, Apteronemobius (Orthoptera, Gryllidae), in the Ryukyus. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 52(1), 79–85.

Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.
Gorochov, A.V., Tan, M.K. & Lee, C.-Y. (2018) Taxonomic notes on the cricket subfamilies Nemobiinae and Trigonidiinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) from islands and coasts of the Pacific and Indian Ocean. Zoosystematica Rossica, 27(2), 290–321. Available at http://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/content/2018/zr_2018_27_2_Gorochov.pdf

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Reference to absence of wings.