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Oecanthus californicus californicus Saussure, 1874

western tree cricket
Oecanthus californicus californicus Saussure, 1874: pale green form, found on pine in AZ. (Otu).
Oecanthus californicus californicus Saussure, 1874: pale green form, found on pine in AZ. (Otu).
Oecanthus californicus californicus Saussure, 1874: antennae of pale form. (Otu).
Oecanthus californicus californicus Saussure, 1874: male, pale form. (Otu).
Oecanthus californicus californicus Saussure, 1874: pale brown form, found on French Broom in California. (Otu).
Oecanthus californicus californicus Saussure, 1874: male, brown form. (Otu).
Oecanthus californicus californicus Saussure, 1874: Fig. 8 A. male, dorsal view. (Otu).
Oecanthus californicus californicus Saussure, 1874: oviposition holes in internode area on french broom. (Otu).

Nomenclature (15)

  • Oecanthus californicus Saussure, 1874: 462.

    Holotype; male; 71bd7b63-33f2-49ea-a174-e37709bb7d03; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); United States

  • Oecanthus californicus Saussure, 1874 in Kirby, 1906: 75.
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  • Oecanthus californicus Saussure, 1874 in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 208.
  • Oecanthus californicus californicus Saussure, 1874 in Hollier, Bruckner & Heads, 2013: 465.

Nomenclature references (15)

  • 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
  • Barnum (1964) Orthoptera of the Nevada Test Site. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, 4(3), 134 pp.
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • de Saussure, H. (1874) Etudes sur les insectes orthoptères, famille des gryllides. In Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale. Imprimerie Impériale, Paris. Vol. 6, 296–515 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=PVZSAAAAcAAJ
  • Fulton, B.B. (1926) The tree crickets of Oregon. Oregon Agricultural College Experiment Station Bulletin, 223, 1–20.
  • Hebard, M. (1928) Studies in the Gryllidae of Panama (Orthoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 54, 233–294. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4264_003#page/41/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1933) Notes on Panamanian Dermaptera and Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 59(973), 103–144. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4269_002#page/39/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1935) Studies in Orthoptera of Arizona. Part II. A list of the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Arizona with new records and corrections of the literature subsequent to 1900. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 61(3), 269–316. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4271_003#page/119/mode/1up
  • Hollier, J.A., Bruckner, H. & Heads, S.W. (2013) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 5: Grylloidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 120(3), 445–535. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/202907#page/103/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1948) Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas, with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of midwestern North America. The American Midland Naturalist, 40, 521–663. [1949]
  • 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
  • Walker, T.J. (1962) The taxonomy and calling songs of United States tree crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae). I. The genus Neoxabea and the niveus and varicornis groups of the genus Oecanthus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 55, 303–322. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s576lw62.pdf
  • Walker, T.J. (1967) Revision of the Oecanthinae (Gryllidae: Orthoptera) of America south of the United States. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 60, 784–796. Available at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/AE60p784.pdf

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