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Species

Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903

Forbes’s tree cricket
Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903: adult male. (Otu).
Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903: adult male. (Otu).
Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903: dark-limbed male, exposing metanotal gland (August 2015, Racine County, Wisconsin). (Otu).
Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903: oviposit marks on Canada Goldenrod (from fall 2015, Racine County, Wisconsin). (Otu).
Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903: mating pair (black head/pronotum version, September 2014, Racine County, Wisconsin). (Otu).
Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903: mating pair showing spermatophore. (Otu).
Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903: ovipositing female (yellow-headed version, note holes in stem, September 2014, Racine County, Wisconsin). (Otu).
Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903: singing male. (Otu).

Nomenclature (11)

  • Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903: 260. (valid)

    Holotype; male; INHS 17424; deposited at: Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS); United States: Illinois: Champaign: Urbana

  • Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903 in Kirby, 1906: 76.
  • Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903 in Symes, 2018
  • Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903 in Collins & Lightfoot, 2022: 186, 187.

References (11)

  • Titus (1903) A new Oecanthus from Illinois. The Canadian Entomologist, 35(9), 260–261. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/canadianentomolo35ento
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Frison, T.H. (1927) A list of the insect types in the collection of the Illinois State Natural History Survey and the Univ. of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 16(4), 137–309. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15508853
  • Walker, T.J. (1963) The taxonomy and calling songs of United States tree crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae). II. The nigricornis group of the genus Oecanthus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 56, 772–789. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s576lw63.pdf
  • Walker, T.J. (1966) Annotated checklist of Oecanthinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) of the World. The Florida Entomologist, 49(4), 265–277. Available at http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/pdf/walker1966.pdf
  • 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.
  • Webb, D.W. (1980) Primary Insect Types in the Illinois Natural History Survey Collection, Exclusive of the Collembola and Thysanoptera. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 32(2), 55–191. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14798686
  • Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 249 pp.
  • Symes, L.B., Rodríguez, R.L. & Hobel, G. (2017) Beyond temperature coupling: Effects of temperature on ectotherm signaling and mate choice and the implications for communication in multispecies assemblages. Ecology and Evolution, 7(15), 5992–6002. Available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552914/
  • Symes, L.B. (2018) Spatial and temporal variation in three call traits and preferences of the tree cricket Oecanthus forbesi. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72(35).
  • Collins, N. & Lightfoot, D.C. (2022) A new species of tree cricket (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Oecanthinae) from Chihuahuan Desert gypsum dunes in the United States and a key to the nigricornis species group. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 31(2), 181–189. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/79036/

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Described on request of the director of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History Stephen A. Forbes (1844–1930) in whose honor it is named.

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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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Species1001