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Subfamily Nemobiinae

ground crickets

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References

Alexander RD, Thomas ES. 1959. Systematic and behavioral studies on the crickets of the Nemobius fasciatus group (Orthoptera:Gryllidae: Nemobiinae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 52: 591-605.

Ballard HEJ. 1991. First report of Allonemobius griseus new record and Psinidia fenestralis new record in Ohio (Orthoptera: Gryllidae and Acrididae). Gt. Lakes Entomol. 24: 181-182.

Benedix JHJ, Howard DJ. 1991. Calling song displacement in a zone of overlap and hybridization. Evolution 45: 1751-1759. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Blatchley WS. 1920. Orthoptera of northeastern America. Indianapolis, IN: Nature Publishing. 784 p. Gryllinae (Blatchley's Gryllinae included Nemobiinae) (pp. 670-709) (The introductory pages to Blatchley's book are accessible on SINA's references page.)

Bourne JR, Niellson RJ. 1967. Nemobius fasciatus-A predator on horn fly pupae. J. Econ. Entomol. 60: 272-274. [=Allonemobius socius]

Bradford MJ, Roff DA. 1993. Bet hedging and the diapause strategies of the cricket Allonemobius fasciatus. Ecology 74: 1129-1135.

Bradford MJ, Guerette PA, Roff DA. 1993. Testing hypotheses of adaptive variation in cricket ovipositor lengths. Oecologia 93: 263-267. [Allonemobius socius]

Bradford MJ, Roff DA. 1995. Genetic and phenotypic sources of life history variation along a cline in voltinism in the cricket Allonemobius socius. Oecologia 103: 319-326.

Bradford MJ, Roff DA. 1997. An empirical model of diapause strategies of the cricket Allonemobius socius. Ecology 78: 442-451.

Braswell WE, Birge LM, Howard, DJ. 2006. Allonemobius shalontaki, a new cryptic species of ground cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Nemobiinae) from the southwestern United States. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 99: 449-456.

Britch SC, Cain ML, Howard DJ. 2001. Spatio-temporal dynamics of the Allonemobius fasciatus-A. socius mosaic hybrid zone: a 14-year perspective. Mol. Ecol. 10: 627-638.

Chu J, Powers E, Howard DJ. 1995. Gene exchange in a ground cricket hybrid zone. J. Hered. 86: 17-21. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Doherty JA, Howard DJ. 1996. Lack of preference for conspecific calling songs in female crickets. Anim. Behav. 51: 981-989. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Fedorka KM, Mousseau TA. 2002. Tibial spur feeding in ground crickets: larger males contribute larger gifts (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Fla. Entomol. 85: 324-329.

Forrest TG, Sylvester JLJ, Testa S, III, Smith SW, Dinep A, Cupit TL, Huggins JM, Atkins KL, Eubanks M. 1991. Mate choice in ground crickets (Gryllidae: Nemboiinae). Fla. Entomol. 74: 74-80. [Neonemobius sp.]

Fox H. 1938. The occurrence of Nemobius sparsalsus Fulton in southern New Jersey (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Entomol. News 49: 133-138. [=Allonemobius sparsalsus]

Fulton BB. 1930. A new species of Nemobius from North Carolina (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Entomol. News 41: 38-42. [Allonemobius sparsalsus]

Fulton BB. 1931. A study of the genus Nemobius (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 24: 205-237.

Fulton BB. 1933. Inheritance of song in hybrids of two subspecies of Nemobius fasciatus (Orthoptera). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 26: 368-376. [=Allonemobius allardi; also A. socius and A. tinnulus]

Fulton BB. 1937. Experimental crossing of subspecies in Nemobius (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 30: 201-207.

Gregory PG, Howard DJ. 1993. Laboratory hybridization studies of Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 86: 694-701.

Gregory PG, Howard DJ. 1994. A postinsemination barrier to fertilization isolates two closely related ground crickets. Evolution 48: 705-710. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Gregory PG, Remmenga MD, Howard DJ. 1998. Patterns of mating between two closely related ground crickets are not influenced by sympatry. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 87: 263-270. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Gross SW, Mays DL, Walker TJ. 1990. Systematics of Pictonemobius ground crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 115: 433-56.

Hebard M. 1913. A revision of the species of the genus Nemobius (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) found in North America north of the Isthmus of Panama. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 65: 394-492.

Hebard M. 1915. The genus Hygronemobius, with the description of one new species. Entomol. News 26: 193-199, 1 pl. [Hygronemobius alleni]

Howard DJ. 1983. Electrophoretic survey of eastern North American Allonemobius (Orthoptera: Gryllidae): Evolutionary relationships and the discovery of 3 new species. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 76: 1014-1021.

Howard DJ, Furth DG. 1986. Review of the Allonemobius fasciatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) complex with the description of two new species separated by electrophoresis, songs, and morphometrics. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 79: 472-481.

Howard DJ, Gregory PG, Chu J, Cain ML. 1998. Conspecific sperm precedence is an effective barrier to hybridization between closely related species. Evolution 52: 511-516. [1083 KB] [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Howard DJ, Harrison RG. 1984a. Habitat segregation in ground crickets: The role of interspecific competition and habitat selection. Ecology 65: 69-76. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. allardi]

Howard DJ, Harrison RG. 1984b. Habitat segregation in ground crickets: Experimental studies of adult survival, reproductive success and oviposition preference. Ecology 65: 61-68. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. allardi]

Howard DJ, Waring GL. 1991. Topographic diversity, zone width, and the strength of reproductive isolation in a zone of overlap and hybridization. Evolution 45: 1120-1135. [1699 KB] [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Howard DJ, Waring GL, Tibbets CA, Gregory PG. 1993. Survival of hybrids in a mosaic hybrid zone. Evolution 47: 789-800. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Johnstone DE, Vickery VR. 1970. Notes on the palustris-cubensis complex of the genus Neonemobius Hebard (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Nemobiinae). J. Georg. Entomol. Soc. 5: 233-241.

Mays DL. 1971. Mating behavior of nemobiine crickets - Hygronemobius, Nemobius and Pteronemobius (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Fla. Entomol. 54: 113-126.

Mousseau TA, Roff DA. 1995. Genetic and environmental contributions to geographic variation in the ovipositor length of a cricket. Ecol. Wash. D C. 76: 1473-1482. [Allonemobius socius]

Mousseau TA, Howard DJ. 1998. Genetic variation in cricket calling song across a hybrid zone between two sibling species. Evolution 52: 1104-1110. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Nielsson RJ, Bass MH. 1967. Seasonal occurrence and number of instars of Nemobius fasciatus a pest on white clover. J. Econ. Entomol. 60: 699-701. [=Allonemobius socius]

Rakshpal R. 1964. Diapause in the eggs of Nemobius allardi Alexander and Thomas (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Nemobiinae). Zool. Anz. 73: 282-288. [=Allonemobius allardi]

Rehn JAG, Hebard M. 1918. A new species of the genus Nemobius from California. Entomol. News 29: 102-104. [Neonemobius eurynotus]

Sarai DS. 1967. Effects of temperature and photoperiod in embryonic diapause in Nemobius fasciatus (de Geer) (Orthoptera Gryllidae). Quaestiones Entomol. 3: 107-135. [=Allonemobius fasciatus]

Tanaka S. 1986. De-alation, flight muscle histolysis, and oocyte development in the striped ground cricket, Allonemobius fasciatus. Physiol. Entomol. 11: 453-458. [997 KB]

Tanaka S. 1986. Developmental characteristics of two closely related species of Allonemobius and their hybrids. Oecologia 69: 388-394. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Tanaka S. 1987. Changing responses to temperature and moisture of diapausing and developing eggs of Allonemobius fasciatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). J. Insect Physiol. 33: 635-642.

Tanaka S. 1991. Genetic compatibility and geographic profile of two closely related species of Allonemobius (Gryllidae: Orthoptera). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 84: 29-36. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Tanaka S. 1992. Factors influencing embryonic diapause in the striped ground cricket, Allonemobius fasciatus (Orthoptera, Gryllidae). JPN. J. Entomol. 60: 149-155.

Thomas ES, Alexander RD. 1957. Nemobius melodius, a new species of cricket from Ohio (Orthoptera, Gryllidae). Ohio J Sci 57: 148-152. [=Eunemobius melodius]

Urquhart FA. 1938. A new species of Nemobius from Ontario (Orthoptera). Can. Entomol. 70: 101-102. [Eunemobius carolinus]

Veech JA, Benedix JH, Jr., Howard DJ. 1996. Lack of calling song displacement between two closely related ground crickets. Evolution 50: 1982-1989. [Allonemobius fasciatus and A. socius]

Vickery VR. 1969. Two species of Pteronemobius previously unreported in Quebec (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Grylloidea: Nemobiinae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Que. 14: 22-24. [Allonemobius griseus and Neonemobius palustris]

Vickery VR, Johnstone DE. 1970. Generic status of some Nemobiinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) in northern North America. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 63: 1740-1749.

Vickery VR, Weissman DB. 1989. Neonemobius eurynotus, Rehn and Hebard, (Grylloptera: Trigonidiidae: Nemobiinae), a cricket of the San Francisco Bay area, California. Pan-Pacific Entomol. 65: 68-73.

Weibel AC, Howard DJ. 2000a. Discovery of new populations of striped ground crickets in western North America: distribution, subdivision, and introduction detected by allozyme data. J. Entomol. Res. Soc. 2(2): 1-25. [Allonemobius allardi, A. fasciatus, and A. socius]

Weibel AC, Howard DJ. 2000b. Canonical correlation of allozyme and morphological variation across distinct geological features in one species of striped ground crickets. J. Entomol. Res. Soc. 2(3): 15-29. [Allonemobius allardi, A. fasciatus, and A. socius]