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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) » Tree Crickets (Oecanthinae) » Common Tree Crickets (Oecanthus)

Genus Oecanthus - Common Tree Crickets

Classification · Pronunciation · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Oecanthus niveus - male handraised Oecanthus varicornis eggs on Chromolaena odorata, slightly unusual pattern - Oecanthus varicornis unknown insect - Oecanthus latipennis - male Snowy Tree Cricket - Oecanthus fultoni - male Tree cricket Aug 20 - Oecanthus - female Oecanthus rileyi - male Oecanthus - Oecanthus celerinictus - male Western Tree Cricket (Oecanthus californicus pectipennis - pectipennis form) female - Oecanthus californicus - 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 Oecanthinae (Tree Crickets)
Genus Oecanthus (Common Tree Crickets)
Pronunciation
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Explanation of Names
Oecanthus Serville 1831
Numbers
18 spp. in our area, close to 90 total(1); our species:
Nigricornis group: O. nigricornis, O. argentinus, O. forbesi, O. celerinictus, O. pini, O. laricis, O. quadripunctatus, O. walkeri
Niveus group: O. niveus, O. exclamationis, O. leptogrammus
Rileyi group: O. rileyi, O. alexanderi, O. fultoni
Varicornis group: O. varicornis, O. californicus, O. latipennis, O. texensis
Identification
any green tree cricket in North America is an Oecanthus. Most of our Oecanthus can be identified to species by ventral markings on first two antennomeres(2)
online key to species here.
Examples of photos showing antennal markings:
Prairie Tree Cricket ▪ Black-horned Tree Cricket ▪ Four-spotted Tree Cricket ▪ Pine Tree Cricket
Western Tree Cricket ▪ Broad-winged Tree Cricket ▪ Narrow-winged Tree Cricket ▪ Davis' Tree Cricket
Snowy Tree Cricket ▪ Riley's Tree Cricket ▪ Forbes' Tree Cricket ▪ Walker's Tree Cricket
Range
worldwide(1)
Life Cycle
see (3)
Remarks
see Fulton (1915) for deatiled info on tree crickets
Internet References
Tree Crickets ― information and photos
Works Cited
1.Orthoptera Species File Online
2.Field Guide To Grasshoppers, Katydids, And Crickets Of The United States
John L. Capinera, Ralph D. Scott, Thomas J. Walker. 2004. Cornell University Press.
3.Raising Oecanthus tree crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae)
Contributed by Mike Boone on 1 October, 2004 - 12:37pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Graham M, David Ferguson, Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, ceiseman, v belov, Chuck Sexton, Tyler Hedlund
Last updated 28 September, 2023 - 8:09pm

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