Genus

Tapinopus Saussure, 1878 (Nomen dubium)

Type

type species by original monotypy of Tapinopus Saussure, 1878

Tapinopus Saussure, 1878: 618 [758]. (nomen dubium in Otte, Alexander & Cade, 1987: 385 and Otte, 1994: 77)
type species by original monotypy Tapinopus platyceps Saussure, 1878
Tapinopus Saussure, 1878 in Kirby, 1906: 101.

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.
de Saussure, H. (1878) Mélanges orthoptérologiques. VI. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(2), 369–704 [505–834]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122148#page/525/mode/1up

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

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Greek ταπεινος (low) and ωψ (face).