nigricornis group

Classification · Remarks

White Tree Cricket - Oecanthus argentinus

Tree cricket - Oecanthus nigricornis - female

Oecanthinae nymph emerging from egg - Oecanthus nigricornis

Oecanthinae instar - Day 23 - Oecanthus nigricornis

Tree Cricket, 5:42pm - Oecanthus argentinus

Fast-calling male - Oecanthus celerinictus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)

Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)

Family Gryllidae (True Crickets)

Subfamily Oecanthinae (Tree Crickets)

Genus Oecanthus (common tree crickets)

No Taxon nigricornis group

Remarks

A great source for 'everything you ever wanted to know about tree crickets' is an article written in May 1915 by Bentley B. Fulton in a Technical Bulletin for the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. The Tree Crickets of New York: Life History and Bionomics

Contributed by Wisconsin Oecanthinancy on 12 October, 2008 - 7:00pm
Last updated 16 October, 2008 - 8:48pm

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