The North American Grasshoppers: Volume II Acrididae: Oedipodinae

Makes the user as confident of grasshopper identifications as he or she would be of bird identifications in using Petersons Field Guide to the Birds For North American insect species, this book has no equal. * Science * A beautifully produced book, profusely illustrated The colour plates are so outstanding that, with some familiarity with the subfamily position, most species can be identified from the illustrations alone The entire book will undoubtedly act as a spur to advance in the study of physiology, ecology and genetics within groups of related genera. -- N. D. Jago * Entomological News *

Daniel Otte is Curator and Chair of Entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Introduction Taxonomic Characters and Variability Communication in Oedipodinae Reproductive Isolation The Subfamily Oedipodinae Key to Genera of Oedipodinae Machaerocera Tropidolophus ARPHIA GENUS GROUP Arphia Leuronotina Totnonotus Lactista CHORTOPHAGA GENUS GROUP Chortophaga Chimarocephala Encoptolophus Shotwellia HIPPISCUS GENUS GROUP Hippiscus Pardalophora Xanthzppus Cratypedes Agyinnastus Stiethippus Leprus Hadrotettix Heliastus Camnula SPHINGONOTUS GENUS GROUP Spharagemon Dissosteira Eximacris Conozoa Microtes Sphingonotus Trimerotropis BRYODEMA GENUS GROUP Circotettix ANCONIA GENUS GROUP Anconia PSINIDIA GENUS GROUP Psinidia Trachyrhachys Hippopedon Met ator Mestobregtna Trepidulus Derotmema Appendix 1. Explanation of Characters Appendix 2. Signal Repertoire of Oedipodinae Appendix 3. Epiphalli and Aedeagi of Palearetic and Nearctic Species of Oedipodinae Appendix 4. Taxonomic Changes Made in This Volume Appendix 5. The Genera of Oedipodinae Appendix 6. The Species of Oedipodinae Appendix 7. Pronunciation of Names References Taxonomic Index