Narrow-winged Tree Cricket
Oecanthus niveus (De Geer, 1773)
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Narrow-winged Tree Cricket calling in Baltimore City, Maryland (low, broken trills). There are Japanese Burrowing Crickets and Lesser Anglewings calling too, along with the usual background tree crickets. - Thomas Wilson.

Description

Identifiable by markings on the first two segments of the antennae. "The first segment (the scape) has a thick black 'J' atop a white field. The second segment (the pedicel) has a small black mark against a white field" (BugGuide).

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Oecanthus niveus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Oecanthidae
Tribe: Oecanthini
Genus: Oecanthus
Species:
O. niveus
Binomial name
Oecanthus niveus
(De Geer, 1773)

Oecanthus niveus, known generally as the narrow-winged tree cricket or snowy tree cricket, is a species of tree cricket in the family Gryllidae, which includes all crickets. First noted by Swedish Entomologist Charles de Geer in 1773 by a Pennsylvanian Specimen, it is found primarily in Eastern North America south of Canada, and also in the Caribbean.[1][2][3][4][5]

Identification

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Adult O. niveus are typically 13-16mm in length. They are a pale green with a pale orange head, and feature a dark streak running medially along the pronotum. On top of the head is an orange cap.[5]

Habitat

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O. niveus can be found on broad-leaved trees, herbaceous plants, shrubbery, and in man-made orchards.[6]

Song

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Like other members of the genus Oecanthus, the song of the male narrow-winged tree cricket varies in pitch and beats per minute depending the temperature, with warmer temperatures resulting in more rapid calling at a higher pitch.[5] At 25°C, the pulse rate averages 71/sec at a frequency of 3.0 kHz.[7] Songs are most often heard at night in late summer and autumn.[5]

Narrow-winged tree cricket, Oecanthus niveus
Narrow-winged tree cricket, Oecanthus niveus

References

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  1. ^ a b "Oecanthus niveus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. ^ a b "Oecanthus niveus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. ^ a b Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "species Oecanthus niveus (De Geer, 1773)". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. ^ a b c d e Fulton, Bentley (May 1915). "Tree Crickets of New York: Life History and Bionomics" (PDF). New York Agricultural Experiment Station.
  5. ^ a b "Narrow-winged Tree Cricket | Vermont Atlas of Life". val.vtecostudies.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  6. ^ a b "narrow-winged tree cricket (Oecanthus niveus)". orthsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
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