Ornebius is a genus of crickets in the family Mogoplistidae and the tribe Arachnocephalini, erected by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1844.[1] Species may be called "common scaled crickets" and have widespread records of distribution, which are discontinuous (and probably incomplete); they include: Africa, Asia, Australia, islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and South America.[2]

Ornebius
Ornebius apertus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Mogoplistidae
Subfamily: Mogoplistinae
Tribe: Arachnocephalini
Genus: Ornebius
Guérin-Méneville, 1844
Synonyms

Liphoplus Saussure, 1877

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Description

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Ornebius (at least the Australian species) are >7.5 mm in length. The tegmen posterior margin has either a continuous black or brown band or three darkened areas. The tibiae of the fore and mid legs are banded. The genital processes are brown to pale brown or whitish. In males, the last abdominal segment is not black between the cerci, and the front of the mirror is not hidden beneath the pronotum.[3][4]

This genus can be divided into at least seven species groups, with other genera currently (2023) incertae sedis. The Australian fauna comprise three of these groups:[3][4]

  • The Abminga Group have the fore and mid leg tibiae unbanded or only faintly banded, the face not strongly banded, the tenth abdominal tergite without tufts of setae, and the forewings with a continuous dark band on the posterior margin and anteriorly with one or three dark spots.
  • The Illaroo Group have the fore and mid leg tibiae strongly banded, the face usually with contrasting markings, the tenth abdominal tergite usually with two tufts of setae near its centre, and the forewings usually with two or three dark markings on the posterior margin (with indistinct dark markings scattered over the remainder).
  • The Wandella Group have the fore and mid leg tibiae only faintly banded, the face not strongly banded, the tenth abdominal tergite usually with two tufts of setae near its centre, and the forewings usually with two or three dark markings on the posterior margin (with indistinct dark markings scattered over the remainder).

Species

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The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

species group abminga Otte & Alexander, 1983
  1. Ornebius abminga Otte & Alexander, 1983
  2. Ornebius coorumbena Otte & Alexander, 1983
  3. Ornebius kalara Otte & Alexander, 1983
  4. Ornebius karkalo Otte & Alexander, 1983
  5. Ornebius nigromaculatus (Chopard, 1925)
  6. Ornebius woomba Otte & Alexander, 1983
species group alii Bhowmik, 1970
  1. Ornebius alii Bhowmik, 1970
  2. Ornebius aureus Ingrisch, 2006
  3. Ornebius carnificare He, Zhang & Ma, 2021
  4. Ornebius cibodas Ingrisch, 2006
  5. Ornebius dowwiangkanae Tan, Dawwrueng & Artchawakom, 2015
  6. Ornebius insculptus Tan & Ingrisch, 2013
  7. Ornebius peniculatus Ingrisch, 2006
  8. Ornebius samudra Ingrisch, 2006
  9. Ornebius tuberculatus Ingrisch, 2006
species group flori Ingrisch, 1998
  1. Ornebius fastus Yang & Yen, 2001
  2. Ornebius flori Ingrisch, 1998
  3. Ornebius marginatus Ingrisch, 1998
  4. Ornebius pullus Ingrisch, 2006
  5. Ornebius xinyao Tan, 2015
species group formosanus (Shiraki, 1911)
  1. Ornebius albalatus Tan & Kamaruddin, 2013
  2. Ornebius apterus He, 2018
  3. Ornebius aurumalas He, Zhang & Ma, 2021
  4. Ornebius formosanus (Shiraki, 1911)
  5. Ornebius lunam He, Zhang & Ma, 2021
  6. Ornebius panda He, 2019
  7. Ornebius polycomus He, 2017
  8. Ornebius yunnanensis Wang, Zhang & Liu, 2020
species group illaroo Otte & Alexander, 1983
  1. Ornebius antakira Otte & Alexander, 1983
  2. Ornebius attunga Otte & Alexander, 1983
  3. Ornebius baloois Otte & Alexander, 1983
  4. Ornebius balumba Otte & Alexander, 1983
  5. Ornebius dandiri Otte & Alexander, 1983
  6. Ornebius dirkanala Otte & Alexander, 1983
  7. Ornebius illaroo Otte & Alexander, 1983
  8. Ornebius jatalinga Otte & Alexander, 1983
  9. Ornebius jirira Otte & Alexander, 1983
  10. Ornebius kapunda Otte & Alexander, 1983
  11. Ornebius lilka Otte & Alexander, 1983
  12. Ornebius oradala Otte & Alexander, 1983
  13. Ornebius yarandilla Otte & Alexander, 1983
species group kanetataki (Matsumura, 1904)
  1. Ornebius bimaculatus (Shiraki, 1930)
  2. Ornebius bioculatus Tan, Ingrisch, Baroga-Barbecho & Yap, 2019
  3. Ornebius citrus Ingrisch, 2006
  4. Ornebius fuscicerci (Shiraki, 1930)
  5. Ornebius infuscatus (Shiraki, 1930)
  6. Ornebius kanetataki (Matsumura, 1904)
  7. Ornebius rubidus Ingrisch, 1998
  8. Ornebius tampines Tan & Robillard, 2012
  9. Ornebius vadus Ingrisch, 1998;species group rufonigrus Ingrisch, 1987
  10. Ornebius alvarezi Tan, Ingrisch, Baroga-Barbecho & Yap, 2019
  11. Ornebius consternus Ingrisch, 2006
  12. Ornebius dumoga Ingrisch, 2006
  13. Ornebius lupus Tan, 2022
  14. Ornebius rufonigrus Ingrisch, 1987
species group wandella Otte & Alexander, 1983
  1. Ornebius allambi Otte & Alexander, 1983
  2. Ornebius aperta Otte & Alexander, 1983
  3. Ornebius bambara Otte & Alexander, 1983
  4. Ornebius coomialla Otte & Alexander, 1983
  5. Ornebius curtipalpis Chopard, 1951
  6. Ornebius elvalina Otte & Alexander, 1983
  7. Ornebius gumbalera Otte & Alexander, 1983
  8. Ornebius immarna Otte & Alexander, 1983
  9. Ornebius kanya Otte & Alexander, 1983
  10. Ornebius wandella Otte & Alexander, 1983
species group not assigned
  1. Ornebius abdominalis (Stål, 1877)
  2. Ornebius acutus Chopard, 1931
  3. Ornebius alatus (Saussure, 1877)
  4. Ornebius albipalpus Ingrisch, 2006
  5. Ornebius †ambericus Vickery & Poinar, 1994
  6. Ornebius angustifrons (Chopard, 1930)
  7. Ornebius angustus Ingrisch, 2006
  8. Ornebius annulatus (Hebard, 1928)
  9. Ornebius barbicornis (Strohecker, 1953)
  10. Ornebius bogor Ingrisch, 2006
  11. Ornebius brasilianus (Saussure, 1877)
  12. Ornebius brevipalpis Chopard, 1930
  13. Ornebius brevipalpus Ingrisch, 2006
  14. Ornebius brevipennis Chopard, 1931
  15. Ornebius cucullatus (Bolívar, 1889)
  16. Ornebius cydistos Otte, 2006
  17. Ornebius dilatatus (Brancsik, 1901)
  18. Ornebius elegantulus Bolívar, 1912
  19. Ornebius euryxiphus Chopard, 1958
  20. Ornebius fasciatus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893)
  21. Ornebius flavipalpis (Kirby, 1900)
  22. Ornebius fuscipennis (Chopard, 1929)
  23. Ornebius guerini (Bolívar, 1900)
  24. Ornebius guerinianus (Saussure, 1877)
  25. Ornebius howensis Chopard, 1951
  26. Ornebius imitatus Ingrisch, 2006
  27. Ornebius karnyi Chopard, 1929
  28. Ornebius komodensis Bey-Bienko, 1966
  29. Ornebius leai Chopard, 1951
  30. Ornebius lepismoides (McNeill, 1901)
  31. Ornebius longicaudus (Saussure, 1877)
  32. Ornebius longipennis (Shiraki, 1930)
  33. Ornebius luteicercis Chopard, 1957
  34. Ornebius medius (Hebard, 1928)
  35. Ornebius mexicanus (Saussure, 1897)
  36. Ornebius minusculus (Chopard, 1929)
  37. Ornebius nigrifrons Chopard, 1969
  38. Ornebius nigripalpis Guérin-Méneville, 1844
  39. Ornebius nigripennis (Chopard, 1929)
  40. Ornebius nigripes Chopard, 1927
  41. Ornebius nigrirostris Chopard, 1969
  42. Ornebius noumeensis (Bolívar, 1882)
  43. Ornebius novarae (Saussure, 1877)
  44. Ornebius obscuripennis (Chopard, 1930)
  45. Ornebius occultus (Saussure, 1877)
  46. Ornebius pendleburyi Chopard, 1969
  47. Ornebius peruviensis Chopard, 1913
  48. Ornebius robustus (Hebard, 1925)
  49. Ornebius rotundatus Chopard, 1931
  50. Ornebius scotops (Hebard, 1928)
  51. Ornebius serratus Ingrisch, 2006
  52. Ornebius stenus Gorochov, 1994
  53. Ornebius succineus Bolívar, 1912
  54. Ornebius syrticus Bolívar, 1912
  55. Ornebius testaceus Chopard, 1913
  56. Ornebius unmadacitra Fernando, 1958
  57. Ornebius validus (Bolívar, 1895)
  58. Ornebius varipennis Chopard, 1936
  59. Ornebius xanthopterus Guérin-Méneville, 1844 - type species (by subsequent designation[5])

References

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  1. ^ Guérin-Méneville FE (1844) Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844 7: 331.
  2. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: genus Ornebius Guérin-Méneville, 1844 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 21 April 2023)
  3. ^ a b Rentz, D.; Su, Y. N. (2019). A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. p. 106. ISBN 9781486305063.
  4. ^ a b Otte, Daniel (2007). Australian Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Academy of Natural Sciences. ISBN 978-1-4223-1928-4.
  5. ^ Kirby WF (1906) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:i-viii, 1-562.
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