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Gryllus (Gryllus) ovisopis Walker, 1974

taciturn wood cricket

female (allotype) and male (holotype), dorsal view. Depicts CollectionObject 1533273; 5f91dda7-bf82-4ac5-bdc8-0f610291d780, a CollectionObject.
female (allotype) and male (holotype), dorsal view. Depicts CollectionObject 1533273; 5f91dda7-bf82-4ac5-bdc8-0f610291d780, a CollectionObject.

Nomenclature (4)

  • Gryllus ovisopis Walker, 1974: 13.

    Holotype; male; 5f91dda7-bf82-4ac5-bdc8-0f610291d780; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States

  • Gryllus ovisopis Walker, 1974 in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 195.
  • Gryllus ovisopis Walker, 1974 in Balenger, 2015: 278.
  • Gryllus ovisopis Walker, 1974 in Weissman & Gray, 2019: 41.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Balenger, S.L. (2015) Stridulated soft song by singing insects. Animal Behaviour, 105, 275–280.
  • Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) In Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 249 pp.
  • Walker, T.J. (1974) Gryllus ovisopis n. sp.: a taciturn cricket with a life cycle suggesting allochronic speciation. The Florida Entomologist, 57, 13–22.
  • Weissman, D.B. & Gray, D.A. (2019) Crickets of the genus Gryllus in the United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae). Zootaxa, 4705(1), 1–277.

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