species

Gryllus (Gryllus) veletis (Alexander & Bigelow, 1960)

spring field cricket

CollectionObject 1499333; 5c262670-907d-44da-9786-ee2907f61792: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1499333; 5c262670-907d-44da-9786-ee2907f61792: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1499333; 5c262670-907d-44da-9786-ee2907f61792: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1499590; 1dc1eb42-9833-42a4-bbcc-4c6a9c6787d8: female, lateral view (allotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1499590; 1dc1eb42-9833-42a4-bbcc-4c6a9c6787d8: female, dorsal view (allotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1499590; 1dc1eb42-9833-42a4-bbcc-4c6a9c6787d8: labels (allotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; 5c262670-907d-44da-9786-ee2907f61792; deposited at: University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology (UMMZ); United States: Illinois

Nomenclature (18)

Acheta veletis Alexander & Bigelow, 1960: 335.
Holotype; male; 5c262670-907d-44da-9786-ee2907f61792; deposited at: University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology (UMMZ); United States: Illinois
Acheta veletis Alexander & Bigelow, 1960 in Alexander, 1961: 139, 191, 194, 201.
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Gryllus veletis (Alexander & Bigelow, 1960) in Lewis, McAlpine & Smith, 2019
Gryllus veletis (Alexander & Bigelow, 1960) in Torson, Hicks, Baragar, Smith & Sinclair, 2022

Nomenclature references (18)

Alexander, R.D. & Bigelow, R.S. (1960) Allochronic speciation in field crickets, and a new species, Acheta veletis. Evolution, 14, 334–346.
Alexander, R.D. (1961) Aggressiveness, territoriality, and sexual behavior in field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Behaviour, 17, 130–223.
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Alexander, R.D. (1962) Evolutionary change in cricket acoustical communication. Evolution, 16, 443–467. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/k340la62b.pdf

Alexander, R.D. (1968) Life cycle origins, speciation, and related phenomena in crickets. Quarterly Review of Biology, 43, 1–41. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/k340la68.pdf

Bertram, S.M., Rook, V.L.M. & Fitzsimmons, L.P. (2010) Strutting their stuff: victory displays in the spring field cricket, Gryllus veletis. Behaviour, 147(10), 1249–1266.

Bland, R.G. (2003) In The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets. Michigan State University Extension. 220 pp.

Burpee, D.M. & Sakaluk, S.K. (1993) The effect of pair formation on diel calling patterns in two cricket species, Gryllus veletis and Gryllodes sigillatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Journal of Insect Behavior, 6(4), 431–440.

Chopard, L. (1967) Gryllides. Fam. Gryllidae; Subfam. Gryllinae (Trib. Grymnogryllini, Gryllini, Gryllomorphini, Nemobiini). In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 10, pp. 213 pp.

Fitzsimmons, L.P. & Bertram, S.M. (2013) Playing to an audience: the social environment influences aggression and victory displays. Biology Letters, 9(4), 1–4. Available at http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/9/4/20130449.abstract

Fitzsimmons, L.P. & Bertram, S.M. (2013) Signaling effort does not predict aggressiveness in male spring field crickets. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 67(2), 213–220. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00265-012-1441-1

Lewis, J.H., McAlpine, D.F. & Smith, A.B.T. (2019) Gryllus veletis (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) in New Brunswick: First detection in Maritime Canada. Northeastern Naturalist, 26(2).

Murray, A.M. & Cade, W.H. (1995) Differences in age structure among field cricket populations (Orthoptera; Gryllidae): possible influence of a sex biased parasitoid. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 73(7), 1207–1213.

Randell, R.L. (1964) The male genitalia in Gryllinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) and a tribal revision. The Canadian Entomologist, 96(12), 1565–1607.

Thomson, I.R. & Bertram, S.M. (2014) Spring field crickets (Gryllus veletis) use two different pulse types when signaling to attract mates. Journal of Insect Behavior, 27(2), 217–227. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10905-013-9421-5

Torson, A.S., Hicks, A.M.A., Baragar, C.E., Smith, D.R. & Sinclair, B.J. (2022) The mitochondrial genomes of two Gryllus crickets (Grylloidea: Gryllidae) via RNA-seq. Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 7(1), 106–107. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23802359.2021.2010613

Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1986) The grasshoppers, crickets, and related insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Ulonata: Dermaptera, Cheleutoptera, Notoptera, Dictuoptera, Grylloptera, and Orthoptera. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, 14, 1–918. Available at http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/aac-aafc/agrhist/A42-42-1985-14-eng.pdf

Weissman, D.B. & Gray, D.A. (2019) Crickets of the genus Gryllus in the United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae). Zootaxa, 4705(1), 1–277.
Weissman, D.B., Rentz, D.C.F., Alexander, R.D. & Loher, W. (1980) Field crickets (Gryllus and Acheta) of California and Baja California, Mexico (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 106, 327–356.