Genus

Bobilla Otte & Alexander, 1983

Grassland Pygmy Crickets

Type

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.

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
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

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

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