Orchelimum_nigripes

<i>Orchelimum nigripes</i>

Orchelimum nigripes

Species of cricket-like animal

Orchelimum nigripes, known generally as the black-legged meadow katydid or red-legged meadow grasshopper, is a species of meadow katydid in the family Tettigoniidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3][4]

Black-legged meadow katydid, Orchelimum nigripes
  • Male stridulating

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See also

  • Orchelimum pulchellum – a similar species with which O. nigripes hybridizes in the southeastern part of its range and along a portion of the Potomac River, the latter case possibly the product of an introduced population of O. nigripes[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Orchelimum nigripes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. [2]
    "Orchelimum nigripes". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. [4]
    Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "species Orchelimum nigripes Scudder, 1875". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. [5]
    Shapiro, Leo H. (1998). "Hybridization and Geographic Variation in Two Meadow Katydid Contact Zones" (PDF). Evolution. 52 (3): 784–796. Retrieved 27 February 2024 – via The Orthopterists' Society.


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