Species Oecanthus texensis - Texas Tree Cricket

Classification · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References

Male Texas tree cricket - Oecanthus texensis - male

Male, Oecanthus californicus? - Oecanthus texensis - male

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 Oecanthinae (Tree Crickets)

Genus Oecanthus (Common Tree Crickets)

No Taxon (Varicornis Group)

Species texensis (Texas Tree Cricket)

Range

Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona and Idaho.

Life Cycle

Two generations per year in southernmost locations of range.

Remarks

This document is offered as a learning tool for determining ID via male's song pulses per second. These are most accurate if a thermometer is placed as close as possible to the perch area of the singing male.

O. texensis

O. californicus

See Also

O. varicornis and O. californicus

Internet References

http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/577a.htm

http://www.oecanthinae.com/106422.html

Contributed by Wisconsin Oecanthinancy on 15 December, 2013 - 10:01pm
Last updated 5 September, 2016 - 9:10am

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