Gammarotettix

Gammarotettix is a North American genus of camel crickets in the family Rhaphidophoridae. They are also called chaparral camel crickets or arboreal camel crickets and are between 10-18 mm.[1] They live mainly in California and possibly in southern Oregon and Arizona.[2]

Gammarotettix
A species of Gammarotettix on a plant
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Rhaphidophoridae
Subfamily: Gammarotettiginae
Genus: Gammarotettix
Brunner, 1888

There are about six described species in Gammarotettix.[3][4][5][6]

Species

These six species belong to the genus Gammarotettix:

References

  1. Will, Kip; Gross, Joyce; Rubinoff, Daniel; Powell, Jerry A. (2020). Field Guide to California Insects. Oakland, California: University of California Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780520288744.
  2. Stidham, Thomas A. (December 1, 2005). "Additions to the natural history of Gammarotettix bilobatus (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae)". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 14 (2): 149–151 via BioOne.
  3. "Gammarotettix Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  4. "Gammarotettix". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  5. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Gammarotettix Brunner, 1888". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

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