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Ornebius aperta Otte & Alexander, 1983

CollectionObject 1584855; a018afe5-64f4-4a1a-87be-01e0196fa938: male. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584855; a018afe5-64f4-4a1a-87be-01e0196fa938: male. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584855; a018afe5-64f4-4a1a-87be-01e0196fa938: male. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584855; a018afe5-64f4-4a1a-87be-01e0196fa938: male. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Ornebius aperta Otte & Alexander, 1983: 396.

    Holotype; male; ANIC 14 008971; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC); Australia: Queensland: Mt. Tambourine

  • Ornebius aperta Otte & Alexander, 1983 in Gwynne, Yeoh & Schatral, 1988: 36-45.
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  • Ornebius aperta Otte & Alexander, 1983 in Rentz & Su, 2019: 277.
  • Ornebius aperta Otte & Alexander, 1983 in Hegg, 2024: 67.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Andrade, M.C.B. & Mason, A.C. (2000) Male condition, female choice, and extreme variation in repeated mating in a scaly cricket, Ornebius aperta (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Mogoplistinae). Journal of Insect Behavior, 13(4), 483–497. Available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/wu1716038h62w643/
  • Gwynne, D.T., Yeoh, P. & Schatral, A. (1988) The singing insects of King's Park and Perth Gardens. The Western Australian Naturalist, 17(2-3), 25–71.
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  • 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
  • Ramsay, G.W. (1990) An Australian cricket newly established at Auckland. The Weta: News Bulletin of Entomological Society of New Zealand, 13(2), 37–38.
  • Ramsay, G.W. (1991) The cricket Ornebius aperta (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) established in New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist, 14, 9–14.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. (2019) A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 398 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486305070

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After aperta, ‘hill’, because of its origin from Tamborine Mountain in Australia. From one of “several small dictionaries covering a number of languages spread across Australia” (D. Otte pers. com. 2023).

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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