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

Genus Hapithus - Flightless Bush Crickets

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
Bush Cricket? - Hapithus agitator - female cricket? - Hapithus agitator - female ID please - Hapithus agitator - female Cricket - Hapithus agitator Hapithus agitator - male cricket - Hapithus agitator - female Hapithus agitator - male Sun bather - Hapithus agitator - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)
Infraorder Gryllidea (Crickets)
Family Gryllidae (True Crickets)
Subfamily Hapithinae (Bush Crickets)
Genus Hapithus (Flightless Bush Crickets)
Explanation of Names
Author of genus is Uhler, 1864.
Numbers
SINA lists 3 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)
Works Cited
1.Field Guide To Grasshoppers, Katydids, And Crickets Of The United States
John L. Capinera, Ralph D. Scott, Thomas J. Walker. 2004. Cornell University Press.
2.How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies
Jacques R. Helfer. 1962. Wm. C. Brown Company.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 11 September, 2004 - 12:27am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Robin McLeod, Chuck Entz, v belov
Last updated 16 January, 2012 - 1:48am

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