species

Pteronemobius (Pteronemobius) regulus (Saussure, 1877)

tiny pigmy cricket

Type specimen

Neotype; male; 270efaf9-137d-4135-b483-f59fcc50004e; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC); Australia: Western Australia: Roper Bar, Kimberley district

Nomenclature (23)

Nemobius regulus Saussure, 1877: 255 [87].
Neotype; male; 270efaf9-137d-4135-b483-f59fcc50004e; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC); Australia: Western Australia: Roper Bar, Kimberley district
Nemobius pulex Saussure, 1877: 264 [96].
Holotype; male; NMW 6426; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NMW); Australia: northern Australia
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Nemobius regulus Saussure, 1877 in Kirby, 1906: 16.
Nemobius pulex Saussure, 1877 in Kirby, 1906: 16.
Nemobius biguttatus Mjöberg, 1913: 32.
Holotype; female; 7c04228c-d476-4840-a29d-08582e413c1b; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Australia: Western Australia: Noonkanbah
Pteronemobius parallelus Chopard, 1925: 7.
Syntype; 64c2cbe1-12c3-47ee-bc15-d2c8b8312973; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Australia: Queensland: Cape York Peninsula
Pteronemobius parallelus Chopard, 1925 in Chopard, 1929: 34.
Nemobius biguttatus Mjöberg, 1913 in Chopard, 1951: 428.
Nemobius biguttatus Mjöberg, 1913 (subjective synonym of Nemobius regulus Saussure, 1877) in Chopard, 1967
Nemobius pulex Saussure, 1877 (subjective synonym of Nemobius regulus Saussure, 1877) in Chopard, 1967
Pteronemobius parallelus Chopard, 1925 (subjective synonym of Nemobius regulus Saussure, 1877) in Chopard, 1967
Pteronemobius regulus (Saussure, 1877) in Chopard, 1967: 173.
Nemobius biguttatus Mjöberg, 1913 (subjective synonym of Nemobius regulus Saussure, 1877) in Otte & Alexander, 1983: 177.
Nemobius pulex Saussure, 1877 (subjective synonym of Nemobius regulus Saussure, 1877) in Otte & Alexander, 1983: 177.
Pteronemobius parallelus Chopard, 1925 (subjective synonym of Nemobius regulus Saussure, 1877) in Otte & Alexander, 1983: 177.
Pteronemobius regulus (Saussure, 1877) in Otte & Alexander, 1983: 177.
Dianemobius medvedevi Gorochov, 1984: 248.
Holotype; female; 2e05c5f0-772e-454e-b8dd-9ba5768698e7; deposited at: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum (SMF); Australia: Northern Territory: Tennant Creek
Pteronemobius regulus (Saussure, 1877) in Baehr, 1989: 20.
Dianemobius medvedevi Gorochov, 1984 (subjective synonym of Nemobius regulus Saussure, 1877) in Otte, 1994: 34.
Pteronemobius regulus (Saussure, 1877) in Rentz, 1996: 129 Pl.183.
Nemobius pulex Saussure, 1877 (subjective synonym of Nemobius regulus Saussure, 1877) in Hollier, Bruckner & Heads, 2013: 513.

Pteronemobius regulus (Saussure, 1877) in Hollier, Bruckner & Heads, 2013: 514.
Pteronemobius (Pteronemobius) regulus (Saussure, 1877) in Rentz & Su, 2019: 346.

Nomenclature references (14)

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.
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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

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. (1967) Gryllides. Fam. Gryllidae; Subfam. Gryllinae (Trib. Grymnogryllini, Gryllini, Gryllomorphini, Nemobiini). In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 10, pp. 213 pp.

Gorochov, A.V. (1984) A new subgenus of the genus Pteronemobius Jac. and some new species of the tribe Pteronemobiini (Orthoptera, Gryllidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 31(4-5), 241–248. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1984%20%2813-19%29/15%20new%20subgenus%20Pteronemobius%20and%20Pteronemobiini%201984.pdf

Hollier, J.A., Bruckner, H. & Heads, S.W. (2013) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 5: Grylloidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 120(3), 445–535. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/202907#page/103/mode/1up

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

Mjöberg, E. (1913) Preliminary descriptions of some new Australian Gryllids and Forficulids. Entomologisk Tidskrift, 34, 26–64. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11417646#page/44/mode/1up

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. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.

Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. (2019) In A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. . 398 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486305070

Rentz, D.C.F. (1996) Grasshopper Country. The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia. CSIRO, UNSW Press, Sydney, i-xi, 1–284.
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

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Descendants and synonyms

Pteronemobius (Pteronemobius) regulus (Saussure, 1877)
- =Nemobius biguttatus Mjöberg, 1913
- =Dianemobius medvedevi Gorochov, 1984
- =Pteronemobius parallelus Chopard, 1925
- =Nemobius pulex Saussure, 1877

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial. Moist areas along streams and moist depressions.

External links to websites

Specimens in MNHN Paris [specimen level information]

Stats

	Names
Rank	Total	Valid	Invalid
species	7	1	6