''Caconemobius'' is a genus of crickets in the subfamily

Nemobiinae Nemobiinae is a subfamily of the newly constituted Trigonidiidae, one of the Grylloidea, cricket families. The type genus is ''Nemobius'', which includes the wood cricket, but members of this subfamily may also be known as ground crickets or "py ...

. There are about 15 species distributed from the Pacific coasts of

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, where they occur in marine environments on the shores of the

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, barren lava fields, and

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caves.Kim, T. and J. Kim. (2010)
A taxonomic review of the marine littoral genus ''Caconemobius'' (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Nemobiinae) in Korea.
''Korean J Syst Zool'' 26(1) 29-33. These are wingless crickets that do not sing. They have bulbous abdomens. They live among rocks on beaches and other marine environments, where they may swim and dive in the saline waters.

Taxonomy

The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species: *'' Caconemobius akusekiensis'' (Oshiro, 1990) *'' Caconemobius albus'' Otte, 1994 *'' Caconemobius anahulu'' (Hualalai lava cricket) Otte, 1994 *'' Caconemobius daitoensis'' (Oshiro, 1986) *'' Caconemobius dibrachiatus'' Ma & Zhang, 2015 *'' Caconemobius fori'' ('ūhini nēnē pele, or Kilauea lava cricket) Gurney & Rentz, 1978 *'' Caconemobius howarthi'' Gurney & Rentz, 1978 *'' Caconemobius nihoensis'' Otte, 1994 *'' Caconemobius paralbus'' Otte, 1994 *'' Caconemobius sandwichensis'' Otte, 1994 *'' Caconemobius sazanami'' (Furukawa, 1970) *'' Caconemobius schauinslandi'' (Alfken, 1901) *''

Caconemobius takarai ''Caconemobius'' is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Nemobiinae. There are about 15 species distributed from the Pacific coasts of Asia to Hawaii, where they occur in marine environments on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, barren lava fields ...

'' (Oshiro, 1990) *'' Caconemobius uuku'' Otte, 1994 *'' Caconemobius varius'' Gurney & Rentz, 1978

References

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