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Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894

four-spotted tree cricket
Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894: Pl. V d. male. (Otu).
Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894: Pl. V d. male. (Otu).
Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894: Pl. III b. 5th-stage nymph. (Otu).
Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894: Fig. 18 M-P. first two segments of left antenna, ventral surface (most common stages in middle). (Otu).
Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894: male. (Otu).
Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894: singing male (August 2010, Racine Co. Wisconsin). (Otu).
Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894: oviposition holes on Russian sage. (Otu).

Nomenclature (35)

  • Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894: 250.
  • Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894: 271.
  • Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894 in Symes, Rodríguez & Hobel, 2017
  • Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894 in Collins & Lightfoot, 2022: 186, 187.

References (32)

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  • Beutenmüller, W. (1894) Notes on some species of North American Orthoptera, with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 6, 249–252. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1681
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1901) Random notes on North American Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 27, 331–337. [1900] Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4237_004#page/58/mode/1up
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  • Allard, H.A. (1910) Musical crickets and locusts in North Georgia. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 12, 32–43. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20247#page/52/mode/1up
  • Fulton, B.B. (1915) The tree crickets of New York: life history and bionomics. Technical Bulletin, 42, 3–47. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s576lf15.pdf
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  • Cantrall, I.J. (1943) The ecology of the Orthoptera and Dermaptera of the George Reserve, Michigan. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 54, 1–184. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/56299
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  • Beaudry, J.R. (1973) Une analyse des complements chromosomiques de certains orthoptères du Quebec et sa signification taxonomique et evolutionnaire. Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology, 15(1), 155–170.
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  • 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/
  • 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/

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Etymology:

Reference to black spots on scapus and pedicellus.

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