Anabrus simplex


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Noun1.Anabrus simplex - large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United StatesAnabrus simplex - large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States
mormon cricket
katydid - large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings
Anabrus, genus Anabrus - a genus of Tettigoniidae
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La-Rivers (1944) also used air-plane dusting to control Anabrus simplex.
Test of Few Insecticides Against the Various Developmental Stages of Hieroglyphus Species (Hemiacridinae: Acrididae: Orthoptera)
In the katydids Anabrus simplex and Kawanaphila nartee, a reduction in food availability causes both a decrease in the number of males that are able to produce high quality spermatophylax meals (Gwynne & Simmons 1990; Gwynne 1993, 2001), and an increase in hungry females looking for these mating meals.
The evolution of sexual size dimorphism: the interplay between natural and sexual selection
Migrating Morman crickets Anabrus simplex Orthoptera Tetticoniidae as food for stream fishes.
Shortnose Gar (Lepisosteus platostomus) Foraging on Periodical Cicadas (Magicicada spp.): Territorial Defense of Profitable Pool Positions

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