genus

Rhicnogryllus Chopard, 1925

Type

Rhicnogryllus fascipes Chopard, 1925 type species by original monotypy of Rhicnogryllus Chopard, 1925

Rhicnogryllus Chopard, 1925: 310.
type species by original monotypy Rhicnogryllus fascipes Chopard, 1925
Rhicnogryllus Chopard, 1925 in Chopard, 1968: 338.
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Rhicnogryllus Chopard, 1925 in Liu & He, 2021: 594.
Rhicnogryllus Chopard, 1925 in Tan, Daguplo, Modina, Alo, Haibil, Mapi-Ot, Macas, Omandam, Nuñeza, Yap & Robillard, 2026: 499.

Chopard, L. (1925) Descriptions de Gryllides nouveaux (Orthopteres). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 94, 291–332. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5460950m/f33.item
Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
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Tan, M.K., Baroga-Barbecho, J.B., Japir, R., Chung, A.Y.C., Wahab, R.A. & Yap, S.A. (2020) A taxonomic study on the Bornean and Philippines sword-tailed crickets in the genus Rhicnogryllus Chopard, 1925 (Orthoptera: Trgonidiidae; Trigonidiinae). Zootaxa, 4763(2), 217–230.
Tan, M.K., Daguplo, J., Modina, R.M.R., Alo, J.R.A., Haibil, H.H., Mapi-Ot, E.F., Macas, J.J.P., Omandam, J.E., Nuñeza, O.M., Yap, S.A. & Robillard, T. (2026) A taxonomic review of Rhicnogryllus (Orthoptera, Trigonidiidae, Trigonidiinae) from the Philippines. Zootaxa, 5752(4), 497–515. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5752.4.3

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Greek ῥικνός, furrowed or grooved, relating to the parallel veins of the tegmina, and the generic name Gryllus.