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  Veröffentlichungen Prof
Lorenz, J.I., Lorenz, M.W., Hoffmann, K.H. (1997): Factors regulating juvenile hormone and ecdysteroid biosynthesis in Gryllus bimaculatus (Ensifera: Gryllidae).
Lorenz, M.W., Lorenz, J.I., Treiblmayr, K., Hoffmann, K.H. (1998): In vivo effects of allatostatins in crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus (Ensifera: Gryllidae).
Witek, G., Hoffmann, K.H. (2001): Immunological evidence for FGLamide- and W2W9-allatostatins in the ovary of Gryllus bimaculatus (Ensifera, Gryllidae).
www.uni-bayreuth.de /departments/toek1/prof_hoffmann-Dateien/publikationen.htm   (1650 words)

  
  FEEDING OF NESTLING AND FLEDGLING EASTERN BLUEBIRDS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gryllidae were fed more in early morning (13.7%) and early evening (13.5%) than late morning (4.9%) and afternoon (4.2%).
I/ariations attributable to weather.--Precipitation (mostly rainfall except during March) increased during the 3 years of study; 15.3 cm of precipitation fell from 1 March to 30 June 1971, and 25.6 cm and 38.6 cm were recorded for the same period in 1972 and 1973, respectively.
Males fed significantly larger percentages of Gryllidae and earthworms; females fed larger percentages of Arachnida and Acrididae.
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Wilson/v090n01/p0084-p0098.html   (9066 words)

  
 Gryllidae - South Seas Companion Natural Phenomenon
Gryllidae is the scientific name of the family of insects that include field and house crickets.
The Gryllidae are insects of the order Orthoptera, of which there are more than 20,000 species worldwide.
Indeed, there are few ecosystems in which species of the order are not found, nor the calls of the male of the species heard.
southseas.nla.gov.au /biogs/P000120b.htm   (142 words)

  
 Personal Museum of Natural History - Crickets and Katydids
A Scaly Cricket [1], Ornebius kanetataki or Kanetataki - Mogoplistinae>.
A Scaly Cricket [2], Ornebius kanetataki or Kanetataki - Mogoplistinae>.
A Scaly Cricket [3][4], Ornebius kanetataki or Kanetataki - Mogoplistinae>.
www.planktonik.com /museum/en/insects/f_or_cricket.html   (163 words)

  
 Neotropical Entomology - Cryptic species of Gryllus in the light of bioacoustic (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is one of the most complex in the Orthoptera systematic field, because it has a set of cosmopolite and cryptic species that have been classified and identified by different researchers according to different taxonomic standards.
Roff, D.A. The genetic basis of wing dimorphism in the sand cricket Gryllus firmus and its relevance on the evolution of wing dimorphisms in insects.
Walker, T.J. Wing dimorphism in Gryllus rubens (Orthoptera: Gryllidae).
www.scielo.br /scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-566X2003000100010   (2187 words)

  
 Grylloidea
Chopardís Scleropteridae are transferred to the Gryllidae (= Sclerogryllini); the Nemobiinae are transferred from the Gryllidae to the Trigonidiidae; and the Eneopteridae are scattered in several independant groups (Eneopteridae s.
Several questions remain to be solved, and would have to be analysed in a phylogenetic perspective, namely the status of Pteroplistidae and Oecanthidae, and the subdivisions of Eneopteridae, Gryllidae, Podoscirtidae and Phalangopsidae.
In the years to come, one of the main goals in crickets systematics will be to clarify this situation with the definition of monophyletic groups and the cladistic analysis of their relations.
www.zoo.utoronto.ca /tree/orthoptera/grylloidea.html   (1673 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Gryllidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Contribution to the gryllid fauna of the western Himalayas (Orthoptera, Gryllidae): 1.
The Gryllacrididae and Gryllidae of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies (Orthoptera) (American Museum novitates) by Henry F Strohecker (Unknown Binding - 1953)
Gryllidae achene by Joel Oppenheimer (Unknown Binding - 1983)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Gryllidae&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1   (582 words)

  
  Subfamily Gryllinae (field crickets)
Reproductive isolation in the house cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae).
Studies on the skeleton of the Indian house cricket Gryllodes sigillatus (Walker) (Gryllidae: Orthoptera): I The sclerites of the head capsule and head appendages.
Feral house crickets Acheta domesticus (L) (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) in Southern Calif. Entomol.
buzz.ifas.ufl.edu /s464a.htm   (747 words)

  
 Family: Gryllidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Southeastern Field Cricket, Gryllus rubens Scudder (Insecta: Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
Southern Wood Cricket, Gryllus fultoni (Alexander) (Insecta: Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
Southwestern Field Cricket, Gryllus texensis Cade and Otte (Insecta: Orthoptea: Gryllidae)
edis.ifas.ufl.edu /TOPIC_Family_Gryllidae   (57 words)

  
 Subfamily Nemobiinae (ground crickets)
Fox H. The occurrence of Nemobius sparsalsus Fulton in southern New Jersey (Orthoptera: Gryllidae).
Hebard M. A revision of the species of the genus Nemobius (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) found in North America north of the Isthmus of Panama.
Rakshpal R. Diapause in the eggs of Nemobius allardi Alexander and Thomas (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Nemobiinae).
buzz.ifas.ufl.edu /s523a.htm   (745 words)

  
 Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Two New Species of Nematodes (Rhabditida: Diplogasteridae and Rhabditidae) ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While conducting field survey on agricultural pests in Argentina in areas of Lincoln and Magdalena (northwest and east of Buenos Aires Province, respectively) we found adults of Gryllodes laplatae Sauss (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) parasitized by two different Rhabditida species, belonging to the families Diplogasteridae and Rhabditidae.
Both species have the stoma well developed, long oesophagus, pseudobulb with valve and bulb without valve, the vulva is protruding and the male presents two spicules and have not bursa and preanal papillae.
Bursa peloderan, with nine pairs of genital papillae arranged: two pairs of preanal, one pair adanal and six pairs postanal, which arranged as follow: one pair under the anus, three pairs of papillae and two pairs at the end of the bursa.
www.scielo.br /scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761998000600013   (1171 words)

  
 field crickets - Gryllus spp. (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
The taxonomy of the field crickets of the eastern United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Acheta).
Wing dimorphism in field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllus).
Group and individual rearing of field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae).
creatures.ifas.ufl.edu /misc/crickets/gryllus.html   (944 words)

  
 Definition of gryllidae - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Learn more about "gryllidae " and related topics at Britannica.com
Find more about "gryllidae " instantly with Live Search
See a map of "gryllidae " in the Visual Thesaurus
www.m-w.com /dictionary/gryllidae   (41 words)

  
 Columbia Encyclopedia- cricket - AOL Research & Learn
common name of the slender, chirping, hopping insects forming the family Gryllidae in the order Orthoptera.
In addition to the true crickets of the family Gryllidae, insects of the family Gryllacrididae are also called crickets.
These are the cave, or camel, crickets, found throughout the world in dark, moist places, and the stone, sand, or Jerusalem crickets of W North America, found under stones in sandy soil.
reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/cricket/20051205224409990020   (429 words)

  
 Cricket (insect) - RecipeFacts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as "true crickets"), are insects somewhat related to grasshoppers and more closely related to katydids or bush crickets (order Orthoptera).
Oecanthinae — tree crickets; usually green with broad, transparent wings; frequent trees and shrubs.
In addition to the above subfamilies in the family Gryllidae, several other orthopteran groups outside of this family also may be called "crickets":
www.recipeland.com:8080 /facts/Cricket_%28insect%29   (494 words)

  
 Gryllidae - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Gryllidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bush-cricket (katydid) Copiphora rhinoceros shedding its skin at night in the Costa Rican rainforest.
In zoology, an insect belonging to any of various families, especially the Gryllidae, of the order Orthoptera.
They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Gryllidae   (262 words)

  
 William D. Brown: Gwynne Lab   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Moreover, whereas females should be expected to weigh the value of both material and genetic benefits when choosing mates, previous studies have generally concentrated on either one or the other.
I studied multiple mechanisms and criteria of female mate choice in the fl-horned tree cricket, Oecanthus nigricornis (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), a species in which females locate males by their calling song, and males feed mates with a secretion produced from a gland on the metanotum.
I show that females remate quickly and indiscriminately when food is scarce but take on second mates more slowly and more discriminately when food is abundant.
www.zoo.utoronto.ca /dgwynne/labpage/wibr.htm   (369 words)

  
 CiteULike: Phylogeny of Ensifera (Hexapoda: Orthoptera) using three ribosomal loci, with implications for the evolution ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A high degree of conflict exists between the molecular and morphological data, possibly indicating that much homoplasy is present in Ensifera, particularly in acoustic structures.
In contrast to prior evolutionary hypotheses based on most parsimonious ancestral state reconstructions, we propose that tegminal stridulation and tibial tympana are ancestral to Ensifera and were lost multiple times, especially within the Gryllidae.
In contrast to prior evolutionary hypotheses based on most parsimonious ancestral state reconstructions, we propose that tegminal stridulation and tibial tympana are ancestral to Ensifera and were lost multiple times, especially within the Gryllidae.}, address = {Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA.
www.citeulike.org /user/bayesian/article/552038   (504 words)

  
 Morphological characterization and comparative analysis of the proventriculus from three species of Endecous Saussure, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fontanetti CS, Zefa E, Passetti F, Mesa A. Morphological characterization and comparative analysis of the proventriculus from three species of Endecous Saussure, 1878 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Phalangopsinae).
The diversity in the morphology of the digestive tract of insects has led several authors to use it as an auxiliary character in systematics and phylogeny, with special emphasis on the proventriculus, whose morphological variability is related to the diversity of insect feeding habits.
The authors believe that these differences, although subtle, may reflect an adpatation to variations in diet to which these populations were submitted in epigean and hypogean regions.
www.entomotropica.org /v17_1/1701b0006.html   (2312 words)

  
 Singing Insects of North America
Alexander RD, Otte D. The evolution of genitalia and mating behavior in crickets (Gryllidae) and other Orthoptera.
Faunal affinities, systematics, and bionomics of the Orthoptera of the California Channel Islands.
Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of Midwestern North America.
buzz.ifas.ufl.edu   (2131 words)

  
 Publications
The role of the male’s cerci in copulation and mate guarding in decorated crickets (Gryllodes sigillatus).
Phenotypic and genetic variation in the stridulatory organs of male decorated crickets, Gryllodes sigillatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae).
Sakaluk, S.K. Spermatophore size and its role in the reproductive behaviour of the cricket, Gryllodes supplicans (Orthoptera: Gryllidae).
www.bio.ilstu.edu /sakaluk/skspubs.htm   (933 words)

  
 Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)
(Oxyurida, Blattophilidae) Parasite of Nymphs of Gryllodes laplatae Sauss (Orthoptera, Gryllidae) in Argentina
In this paper we report another new species of the genus Neyraiella, N.
parasite of Gryllodes laplatae Sauss (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) found in City Bell, Argentina.
www.bioline.org.br /request?oc02062   (754 words)

  
 Team Zebra: Beautiful day = family Gryllidae
by Stephen Brokaw, Apr 12, 08:03 PM I don’t know why, but today’s incredibly nice weather makes me think of a certain sport I encountered this past summer across the pond, which shares its name with Gryllidae.
It was virtually impossible to turn on the tube and not see BBC broadcasting a match.
The "little rectangle" you speak of is called the "pitch" or "wicket" and is a shade over 22 yards long.
www.hcs.harvard.edu /tz/2006/04/beautiful_day_family_gryllidae_1.html   (787 words)

  
 Florida Entomologist, v. 84, n. 2, p. 314
Factors that possibly influence variation in the calling song of field crickets: temperature, time, and male size, age, and wing morphology.
Walker, T. Trilling field crickets in a zone of overlap (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllus).
Walker, T. Pulse rates in the songs of trilling field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllus).
www.fcla.edu /FlaEnt/fe84p314.htm   (780 words)

  
 fUSION Anomaly. Crickets
The males of many species produce a shrill chirping sound by rubbing the front wings together.
During daylight hours, crickets remain hidden, but at night they emerge to feed on plants.
Scientific classification: True crickets make up the family Gryllidae in the order Orthoptera, which also includes grasshoppers and katydids.
fusionanomaly.net /crickets.html   (354 words)

  
 Cricket (insect) - Definition, explanation
Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as 'true crickets'), are insects related to grasshoppers and katydids (order Orthoptera).
Oecanthinae - Tree crickets; usually green with broad, transparent wings; frequent trees and shrubs.
In addition to the above subfamilies in the family Gryllidae, several other orthopteran groups outside of this family also may be called "crickets":
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/cr/cricket__insect_.php   (385 words)

  
 2003 Grasshopper Survey
One sample consisted of 10 sweeps made through the margin (ditch) bordering a crop field.
All grasshoppers (Family Acrididae), katydids (Family Tettigonidae) and crickets (Family Gryllidae) captured in the sampling were preserved and identified to species.
Summary tables of the survey results are available below as well as links to distribution maps for each species that was recovered during the survey.
www.mda.state.mn.us /pestsurvey/grasshoppers/2003survey.htm   (157 words)

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