New records of exotic crickets in Europe: Homoeogryllus species (Orthoptera: Gryllidea: Phalangopsidae)

By

Żurawlew, Przemysław
Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
Szymański, Paweł
Herman, David Billy

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-9-14

Original Publication

Journal of orthoptera research : JOR

Volume

29

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

121--125

Subjects

Belgium , Identification , Poland , species introductions , spectrogram , Tropical plants

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Philadelphia, Penn Orthopterists' Society 1992-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.29.50387

 

Abstract

This short note lists new records of exotic crickets belonging to the genusHomoeogryllus(Orthoptera: Gryllidea: Phalangopsidae) in Europe (Poland and Belgium) and discusses the most probable scenarios of their arrival from tropical regions. Photographs and stridulation spectrograms of these crickets are provided. The report concludes that handling terminals and warehouses with tropical plants are the most common sites in Europe where exotic species of different taxa are recorded. The speciesHomoeogryllus longicornis(Walker, 1869) is also reclassified to the genusMeloimorphaWalker, 1870.