The Taxonomy of the Field Crickets of the Eastern United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Acheta)

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Orthopteran taxonomists are plagued with a number of genera containing species groups that defy subdivision by the time-honored criterion of morphological distinction. Although relatively few species of singing Tettigoniidae and Gryllidae have been described in the last fifty years from the eastern United States, an estimated 10 percent of the species in these groups are largely unrecognized because preserved specimens are morphologically indistinguishable. Many of these have been mentioned in the literature, and some have been recognized at one time or another as distinct species, only to be cast into synonymy or compromised as trinomials by subsequent authors. Many of them have been variously referred to as “physiological races,” “ecological races,” “biological races,” “song forms,” or by other more or less meaningless terms.

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