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Orthoptera Species File
Species

Oecanthus symesi Collins & van Den Berghe, 2014

Golden tree cricket
Oecanthus symesi Collins & van Den Berghe, 2014: male, dorsal view (from Nicaragua). (Otu).
Oecanthus symesi Collins & van Den Berghe, 2014: male, dorsal view (from Nicaragua). (Otu).
Oecanthus symesi Collins & van Den Berghe, 2014: female, dorsal view (from Nicaragua). (Otu).
Oecanthus symesi Collins & van Den Berghe, 2014: antennal markings. (Otu).
Oecanthus symesi Collins & van Den Berghe, 2014: metanotal gland. (Otu).

Nomenclature (1)

  • Oecanthus symesi Collins & van Den Berghe, 2014 in Collins, van Den Berghe & Carson, 2014: 167.

    Holotype; male; 56e80a4c-a8f1-4e95-b603-f0a8a4252b1e; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Nicaragua: Nueva Segovia: Cerro Jesús

References (1)

  • Collins, N., Van Den Berghe, E. & Carson, L. (2014) Two new species of Neoxabea, three new species of Oecanthus, and documentation of two other species in Nicaragua (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 140, 163–184.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named in honor of Dr. Laurel Symes who earned earned her PhD using Oecanthinae as her study group. She verified distinct species status for the two newly described Nicaraguan Neoxabea tree crickets using DNA sequencing.

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