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Pteronemobius (Pteronemobius) arima Otte & Alexander, 1983

coastal pygmy cricket

Nomenclature (3)

  • Pteronemobius arima Otte & Alexander, 1983: 179.

    Holotype; male, adult; ANIC 14 008970; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC); Australia: Northern Territory: Holmes Jungle, Palm Creek, 15 km E Darwin

  • Pteronemobius (Pteronemobius) arima Otte & Alexander, 1983 in Rentz & Su, 2019: 343.
  • Pteronemobius arima Otte & Alexander, 1983 in Hegg, 2024: 52.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After arima, ‘reed’. From one of “several small dictionaries covering a number of languages spread across Australia” (D. Otte pers. com. 2023). Arima is used as a name in apposition.

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