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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Bush Crickets (Hapithinae) » Flightless Bush Crickets (Hapithus)

Genus Hapithus - Flightless Bush Crickets

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Hapithinae (Bush Crickets)
Genus Hapithus (Flightless Bush Crickets)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Moved from family Eneopteridae at BugGuide on 1 February 2008. Placement in subfamily Hapithinae of family Gryllidae follows the classification used in the Orthoptera Species File here; see Taxonomy Proposals forum topic on "Orthoptera" here.
Explanation of Names
Author of genus is Uhler, 1864.
Numbers
SINA lists 3 species.
Nearctica.com lists 6 species.
Size
9-19 mm
Identification
Quoting from SINA: "Brown, sedentary crickets with hindwings shorter than forewings; foretibia with anterior tympanum but without posterior one."
Range
H. agitator: widespread in southeast
H. brevipennis: more restricted to southeastern states
H. melodius: restricted to southern Florida
(see maps linked from SINA page)
See Also
Loud-singing bush crickets, genus Orocharis
Print References
Capinera, p. 203, plate 45--Hapithus agitator (1)
Helfer, p. 334--description Hapithus agitator, fig. 533--H. brevipennis (2)
Internet References
description and illustration of three species, plus common name reference and biology (Singing Insects of North America)
classification plus literature citations and included taxa (Orthoptera Species File)
Works Cited
1.Field Guide To Grasshoppers, Katydids, And Crickets Of The United States
By John L. Capinera, Ralph D. Scott, Thomas J. Walker
2.How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies
By Jacques R. Helfer
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 11 September, 2004 - 12:27am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Robin McLeod
Last updated 31 January, 2008 - 11:56pm

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