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Issue: Vol. 4550 No. 1: 23 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.1.8
Page range: 135–140
Abstract views: 79
PDF downloaded: 2

The identity of the Bahama endemic field cricket Gryllus bryanti Morse (Orthoptera: Gryllidae; Gryllinae; Gryllini)

Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118.
University of The Bahamas, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas.
Department of Biological Sciences, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 4S2.
Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330.
Orthoptera island endemic species Caribbean field crickets Gryllus assimilis G. bermudensis G. firmus G. locorojo G. mandevillus

Abstract

The Bahama endemic field cricket, Gryllus bryanti Morse, 1905, previously known from only the lost female holotype, is redescribed, including designation of a neotype. Known only from Andros and Eleuthera Islands in The Bahamas, where it occurs with G. assimilis, it can be separated from the latter by song, tegmen file characteristics, head wider than pronotum, and genetics.

 

 

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