Genus

Aphonoides Chopard, 1940

slender silent bush crickets

Type

type species by original designation of Aphonoides Chopard, 1940

Nomenclature (20)

Aphonoides Chopard, 1940: 201.
type species by original designation Gryllus (Eneoptera) punctatus Haan, 1844
Aphonoides Chopard, 1940 in Chopard, 1968: 399.

Aphonoides Chopard, 1940 in Muhammad & Tan, 2025: 102.
Aphonoides Chopard, 1940 in Wei, Wang, Yu, Zhang, Gong & He, 2025: 347.

References (20)

Chopard, L. (1940) Results of the Oxford University expedition to Sarawak (Borneo), 1932. Gryllacridae and Gryllidae (Orthoptera). The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 76(8-9), 189–192; 193–204.
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.

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

Gorochov, A.V. (1986) System and morphological evolution of crickets from the family Gryllidae (Orthoptera) with description of new taxa. Communication 1. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 65(4), 516–527. [in Russian] Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1986%20%2826-32%29/27%20On%20syst%20&%20evol%20Gryllidae%201%20%28russian%29%201986.pdf

Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1990) Étude phylogénétique, biogéographique et écologique des Grylloidea néotropicaux (Insectes, Orthoptères). University of Paris, 347 pp. PhD thesis.

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

Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]

Oshiro, Y. (1995) Studies on the Gryllidae from the Ryukyu Islands. Nakimushikai, Okinawa, 1–131 pp.

Yin, H. & Liu, X.-W. (1995) Synopsis on the classification of Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea from China. Shanghai Scientific & Technological Literature Publishing House, Shanghai, 239 pp.

Oshiro, Y. (1998) A new species of the genus Aphonoides Chopard (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) from the Yaeyama Islands, the Ryukyus, southwestern Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 4(1), 179–183, illustr.

Yin, H. & Zhang, W. (2001) A new species of Aphonoides Chopard (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Eneopteridae) from China. Entomotaxonomia, 23(2), 87–89.

Gorochov, A.V. (2007) Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 6: Indo-Malayan Aphonoidini. Zoosystematica Rossica, 15(2), 237–289. [2006] Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2007%20%28206-216%29%20semibad/206%20SEMIBAD%20Aphonoidini%20Asia%202007.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (2008) Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 7: Australo-Oceanian Aphonoidini and geography of the tribe. Zoosystematica Rossica, 17(1), 15–50. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2008%20%28217-229%29%20semibad/221%20another%20pdf%20Aphonoidini%20Oceania%202008.pdf

Tan, M.K. (2012) Orthoptera in the Bukit Timah and Central Catchment Nature Reserves (Part 2): Suborder Ensifera. Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 70 pp. Available at http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/ensifera_btnr_ccnr.pdf

Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Anso, J. & Jourdan, H. (2016) Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa. Zoosystema, 38(4), 405–452. Available at http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/38/4/les-grillons-de-nouvelle-caledonie-insecta-orthoptera-grylloidea-cle-d-identification-des-genres-diagnoses-des-genres-existants-et-description-de-nouveaux-taxons

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

Zheng, Y., Xin, Z., Xie, L.-D. & Ma, L. (2021) Revision of the cricket subfamily Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) from China. Zootaxa, 4995(3), 401–424.

Wu, Q., Guo, R.-H. & Ma, L. (2023) Taxonomic study of species of tribe Aphonoidini Gorochov, 2008 (Orthoptera: Oecanthidae) based on ovipositor morphology in China. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 304, 113–121.

Muhammad, A.A. & Tan, M.K. (2025) The diversity of Orthoptera in the northwestern parts of Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 34(1), 95–118. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.34.128225
Wei, S.-F., Wang, D., Yu, Z.-Y., Zhang, T., Gong, P. & He, Z. (2025) Taxonomic study of the genus Aphonoides (Orthoptera: Oecanthidae: Podoscirtinae) in China. European Journal of Entomology, 122, 344–358. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2025.039

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Genus	1	0	0	1
Superspecies	3	0	0	3
Species	77	0	25	102