Oecanthus
Female wine chicken ( Oecanthus pellucens )
Oecanthus is a grasshopper genus of the subfamily of flowers crickets ( Oecanthinae ).
Features
Oecanthus species are brightly colored and very tender. Her head is half prognathous and has no ocelli on. The pronotum is longer than wide and tapers slightly forward night. The metanotum of the male has a large glandular pit. The males are parapter to mesopter, the females on the other hand parapter. The abdomen is narrow. The straight ovipositor is serrated at the apex, dark and widened.
Occurrence
The distribution of the genus includes Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the north of Africa to sub-Saharan and West and Central Asia.
System
The genus includes the following 62 species:
- Species group nigricornis group Oecanthus argentinus Saussure, 1874
- Oecanthus celerinictus Walker, 1963
- Oecanthus laricis Walker, 1963
- Oecanthus nigricornis Walker, 1869
- Oecanthus pini Beutenmüller, 1894
- Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beutenmüller, 1894
- Oecanthus exclamationis Davis, 1907
- Oecanthus leptogrammus Walker, 1962
- Oecanthus niveus ( De Geer, 1773)
- Oecanthus alexanderi Walker, 2010
- Oecanthus Allardi Walker & Gurney, 1960
- Oecanthus fultoni Walker, 1962
- Oecanthus rileyi Baker, 1905
- Oecanthus californicus Saussure, 1874
- Oecanthus latipennis Riley, 1881
- Oecanthus varicornis Walker, 1869
Assigned to any species group:
- Oecanthus adyeri Otte & Alexander, 1983
- Oecanthus angustus Chopard, 1925
- Oecanthus antennalis Liu, Yin & Hsia, 1994
- Oecanthus bilineatus Chopard & Chatterjee, 1937
- Oecanthus brevicauda Saussure, 1878
- Oecanthus burmeisteri Saussure, 1877
- Oecanthus capensis Saussure, 1877
- Oecanthus chopardi Uvarov, 1957
- Oecanthus comma Walker, 1967
- Oecanthus comptulus Karsch, 1893
- Oecanthus decorsei Chopard, 1932
- Oecanthus dissimilis Toms & Otte, 1988
- Oecanthus dulcisonans Gorochov, 1993
- Oecanthus euryelytra Ichikawa, 2001
- Oecanthus Filiger Walker, 1871
- Oecanthus forbesi Titus, 1903
- Oecanthus galpini Toms & Otte, 1988
- Oecanthus henryi Chopard, 1936
- Oecanthus immaculatus Bruner, 1906
- Oecanthus indicus Saussure, 1878
- Oecanthus jamaicensis Walker, 1969
- Oecanthus Karshi Chopard, 1932
- Oecanthus lineolatus Saussure, 1897
- Oecanthus longicauda Matsumura, 1904
- Oecanthus macer Karsch, 1893
- Oecanthus major Walker, 1967
- Oecanthus minutus Saussure, 1877
- Oecanthus nanus Walker, 1967
- Oecanthus neofiliger Toms & Otte, 1988
- Oecanthus neosimilis Toms & Otte, 1988
- Oecanthus pellucens ( Scopoli, 1763)
- Oecanthus peruvianus Walker, 1869
- Oecanthus pictipes Rehn, 1917
- Oecanthus prolatus Walker, 1967
- Oecanthus pseudosimilis Otte, 1988
- Oecanthus rectinervis Chopard, 1932
- Oecanthus rufescens Serville, 1838
- Oecanthus rufopictus Chopard, 1932
- Oecanthus similator Ichikawa, 2001
- Oecanthus similis Chopard, 1932
- Oecanthus sinensis Walker, 1869
- Oecanthus socians Otte, 1988
- Oecanthus sycomorus Toms & Otte, 1988
- Oecanthus tenuis Walker, 1869
- Oecanthus turanicus Uvarov, 1912
- Oecanthus zhengi Xie, 2003