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  tribe Conocephalini Burmeister, 1838
genus Conocephalus (Thunberg, 1815)
subgenus Anisoptera Latreille, 1829

species Conocephalus (Anisoptera) fasciatus (De Geer, 1773)

• Common name(s):  Slender Meadow Katydid
• Images: (31) See all images
  • pronotum and stridulatory apparatus (type of Xiphidium vicinum Morse); specimen
  • female (type of Xiphidium vicinum Morse) ; specimen
  • male cerci (type of Xiphidium vicinum Morse); specimen
• Sound recordings:
  • Jasper Co., TX, cage in lab, temp. 26.2 degrees C, 29 sec.
• Links:
  • Singing Insects of North America
• Distribution:
  • Map based on specimen latitude/longitude data.
• Specimen data are available.
• Citations (47):
  • De Geer. 1773. Mémoires pour servir à l' histoire des insectes 3:458 >> Locusta fasciata
  • Serville. 1831. Ann. Sci. nat. Paris 22(86):159 >> Xiphidion fasciatum  
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2(2):I-VIII:708 >> Xiphidium fasciatum
  • Burmeister. 1840. Zeitsch. Entom. 2:68 >> Xiphidium fasciatum
  • Scudder, S.H. 1862. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 7:285 >> Xiphidium fasciatum  
  • Scudder, S.H. 1869. Smithson. misc. Coll. 8:84 >> Xiphidium fasciatum  
  • Bolívar, I. 1888. Mem. Soc. Zool. France 1:152 >> Xiphidium fasciatum  
  • Redtenbacher. 1891. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 41:506 >> Xiphidium (Xiphidium) fasciatum  
  • McNeill. 1891. Psyche 6(178):24 >> Xiphidium fasciatum  
  • Beutenmüller. 1894. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 6:283  
  • Beutenmüller. 1894. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 6:283 >> Xiphidium fasciatum  
  • Griffini. 1896. Boll. Musei Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino 11:30 >> Xiphidium fasciatum  
  • Saussure & Pictet. 1898. Biologia Centrali-Americana 1:396, 398 >> Xiphidium fasciatum  
  • Scudder, S.H. & Cockerell. 1902. Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. 9:53 >> Xiphidium fasciatum  
  • Blatchley. 1903. Ann. Rep. Dept. Geol. and Nat. Resources of Indiana 27:371,72  
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. 26:806 >> Xiphidium fasciatum
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1903. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 29:134 >> Xiphidion fasciatum  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1904. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 56:573 >> Xiphidion fasciatum  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1905. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 57:826 >> Xiphidion fasciatum  
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:275 >> Anisoptera fasciatum  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1906. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 58:416  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1907. Entomol. News 18:212 >> Xiphidion fasciatum
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1907. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 59:64 >> Conocephalus fasciatus  
  • McClung. 1908. Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull. 4 >> Note: chromosomes
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1910. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 62:7  
  • Karny. 1912. In Wytsman [Ed.]. Genera Insectorum 135:9 >> Conocephalus (Neoxiphidion)
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1914. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 66:407
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1915. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 41:170 >> Conocephalus (Xiphidion) fasciatus fasciatus  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1915. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 41:248 >> Conocephalus (Xiphidion) fasciatus fasciatus  
  • Bruner, L. 1915. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 9(3-4):376 >> Conocephalus fasciatus  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1916. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 68:265
  • Morse. 1920. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 35(6):364 >> Conocephalus fasciatus  
  • Hebard. 1930[1931]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 82:400  
  • Hebard. 1932[1931]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 83:200
  • Hebard. 1934. Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist. 20:217 >> Conocephalus fasciatus fasciatus  
  • Asana, Makino & Niyama. 1938. J. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ. (Zool.) 6:221-234 >> Note: chromosomes
  • Hebard. 1945. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 71(1124.45):94  
  • Gurney. 1959. Florida Ent. 42(2):79 >> Note: Compared to cinereus
  • Vickery. 1961. Proc. Nova Scotia Inst. Sci. 25:26 >> Note: In Nova Scotia
  • Stainer. 1975. Jour. Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia 72:34
  • Bailey, W.J. 1975. Bull. IFAN (A) 37(1):34 >> Conocephalus (Xiphidion)
  • Vickery & Kerr. 1975. Proc. Ent. Soc. Ontario 105:96
  • Kim, D.H., J.W. Lee & Park. 1987. Korean J. Entomol. 17:215-223 >> Note: chromosomes
  • Otte, D. 1997. Orthoptera Species File 7:41 >> Conocephalus (Conocephalus) fasciatus
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa. 1998. Folia biologica (Krakow) 46:161 >> Note: chromosomes
  • Bland. 2003. The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets 148 >> Conocephalus fasciatus
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 181, Plate 40 >> Conocephalus fasciatus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Northeastern U.S.A., Pennsylvania
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Sex of type:  female
  • Location of type:  NHRS Stockholm

• synonym gracile Harris, 1841
• synonym vicinus (Morse, 1901)