Antillean bush cricket
Antillicharis oriobates Otte & Perez-Gelabert 2009
 
 
 
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Identification:   This species may to be the same as the species treated here as Antillicharis gryllodes. (See Remarks below.)

Habitat:  No data.

Season:  No data.

Song:  No data.

Similar species:  Currently oriobates cannot be distinguished from Florida's "gryllodes."

Remarks:  Otte & Perez-Gelabert (2009) described A. oriobates based on a male from Biscayne Bay, Florida. They recognized oriobates as distinct from the species they identified as A. gryllodes based on features of its genitalia. They published lateral, dorsal, and ventral views of the genitalia of the holotype of oriobates and of an Antillicharis male from Cuba that they designated as an "exemplar" of gryllodes. They did not indicate what genitalic features were important in separating oriobates and gryllodes and the identification of their exemplar as gryllodes was not definitive because they did not examine the genitalia of the holotype of that species. Even though Jamaica has two species of "Group 12" of the species in Antillicharis (the group of Antillicharis species to which oriobates and their exemplar of gryllodes belong), they seemed to have assumed that Cuba has only one. All this leaves two relevant questions unanswered: (1) Is oriobates different from the species treated in SINA as gryllodes? and (2) Is the exemplar that Otte & Perez-Gelabert used to characterize their gryllodes conspecific with the holotype of that species?

To characterize A. oriobates, Otte & Perez (2009) refer to their Figure 320, which includes a total of nine photographic images of the holotype. In addition they write, "Pale brown; wings with lateral black and pale streak; pronotum lateral lobe black in upper quarter; tympanal condition I/O [large inner and large outer tympanum]," and include these measurements of the holotype (lengths in mm): body, 20; forewing, 14; femur-3, 10.5; cercus, 5.

More information:  subfamily Eneopterinae, genus Antillicharis

Reference:  Otte & Perez-Gelabert 2009.

Nomenclature:  OSF (Orthoptera Species File Online)