genus

Bobilla Otte & Alexander, 1983

Grassland Pygmy Crickets

Type

Nemobius bivittatus Walker, 1869 type species by original designation of Bobilla Otte & Alexander, 1983

Bobilla Otte & Alexander, 1983: 180.
type species by original designation Nemobius bivittatus Walker, 1869
Bobilla Otte & Alexander, 1983 in Otte, Alexander & Cade, 1987: 399.
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Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Anso, J. & Jourdan, H. (2016) Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa. Zoosystema, 38(4), 405–452. Available at http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/38/4/les-grillons-de-nouvelle-caledonie-insecta-orthoptera-grylloidea-cle-d-identification-des-genres-diagnoses-des-genres-existants-et-description-de-nouveaux-taxons
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
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Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. (2019) A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 398 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486305070
Su, Y.N. & Rentz, D.C.F. (2000) Australian nemobiine crickets: behavioral observations and new species of Bobilla Otte & Alexander (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Nemobiinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 9, 5–20.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

According to derivation of names (Otte & Alexander 1983: 467) "bobo" means grass. Bobilla species live in grassland (Hegg 2024).