Species Oecanthus exclamationis - Davis' Tree Cricket

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References

Riley's Tree Cricket - Oecanthus rileyi - Oecanthus exclamationis - female

Male Davis' tree cricket - Oecanthus exclamationis - male

Tree Cricket sp.? - Oecanthus exclamationis - female

Oecanthus niveus nymph? - Oecanthus exclamationis

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 (Niveus Group)

Species exclamationis (Davis' Tree Cricket)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Oecanthus exclamationis Davis, 1907

Explanation of Names

Common name for author of species, William Thompson Davis.

Identification

Davis' Tree Cricket has an elegant appearance -- appears sleeker in profile and has a translucent quality. They tend to have a 'sheen' as instars. There is golden-orange on the top of the head, the antennae and limbs are pale. The antennal markings resemble an inverted exclamation mark. An upside down teardrop-shaped black mark is on the 1st antennal segment and a black elongated dot is on the second segment.

Range

As of 1/2009, the SINA range map shows occurence to include the area from Nebraska south to Texas then east to Florida then north to New Hampshire then west back to Nebraska through Wisconsin and Iowa. A separate population has been reported in Arizona.

Life Cycle

Undergo a paurometabolous development (Gradual Metamorphosis). Nymphs resemble small adults and gradually develop external wing buds. They live in the same habitat as adults, typically taking the same food.

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

Internet References

Singing Insects of North America--Davis’s tree cricket

http://oecanthinae Oecanthinae

Contributed by Wisconsin Oecanthinancy on 20 August, 2008 - 9:14pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, David Ferguson
Last updated 4 September, 2010 - 12:19pm

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