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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) » Loud-singing Bush Crickets (Orocharis)

Genus Orocharis - Loud-singing Bush Crickets

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Jumping Bush Cricket - Orocharis saltator - male

Not a chickadee - Orocharis saltator - female

Miscellaneous3 - Orocharis saltator - male

Jumping Bush Cricket - Dorsal - Orocharis - 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 Orocharis (Loud-singing Bush Crickets)

Other Common Names

Jumping 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.

Numbers

Singing Insects of North America lists 6 species: O. diplastes, O. gryllodes, O. luteolira, O. nigrifrons, O. saltator, and O. tricornis.

Size

15-20 mm (O. saltator)

Identification

Forewings cover abdomen, and hindwings project out from beneath them (1).

Range

O. saltator is widespread in eastern United States, mostly southeast, though absent from Florida peninsula and southeastern Georgia.

O. luteolira is found in southeastern coastal plain (1).

Other species restricted to Florida.

See Also

Short-winged bush crickets, genus Hapithus

Print References

Capinera, p. 204, plate 45 (1)

Helfer, pp. 334-335, fig. 534 (2)

Internet References

description plus illustrations of head of five species and common name reference (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 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 Mike Boone on 2 January, 2005 - 3:40pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Robin McLeod, Chuck Entz
Last updated 13 November, 2011 - 2:33am

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