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  tribe Conocephalini Burmeister, 1838
genus Orchelimum (Serville, 1838)
subgenus Orchelimum (Serville, 1838)

species Orchelimum (Orchelimum) agile (De Geer, 1773)

• Common name(s):  Agile Meadow Katydid; Agile Meadow Grasshopper
• Images: (22) See all images
  • male habitus, lateral view (syntype of Xiphidium nitidum); specimen
  • male pronotum lateral (syntype of Xiphidium nitidum); specimen
  • male cerci (syntype of Xiphidium nitidum); specimen
• Sound recordings:
  • Perry Co., MS, cage in room, temp. 26 degrees C, 22 sec.
• Links:
  • Singing Insects of North America
• Distribution:
  • Map based on specimen latitude/longitude data.
• Specimen data are available.
• Citations (22):
  • De Geer. 1773. Mémoires pour servir à l' histoire des insectes 3:457 >> Locusta agilis
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2(2):I-VIII:707 >> Xiphidium agile
  • Scudder, S.H. 1862. Jour. Nat. Hist. Boston 7(3):453 >> Xiphidium agile  
  • Scudder, S.H. 1869. Smithson. misc. Coll. 8:84 >> Xiphidium agile  
  • Redtenbacher. 1891. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 41:500 >> Xiphidium (Orchelimum) agile  
  • Beutenmüller. 1894. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 6:283 >> Orchelimum agile  
  • Saussure & Pictet. 1898. Biologia Centrali-Americana 1:397 >> Xiphidium agile  
  • McNeill. 1900. Entomol. News 3:79, 82
  • Scudder, S.H. 1901[1899]. Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. 8:73 >> Orchelimum agile  
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:273 >> Orchelimum agile  
  • Karny. 1907. Abh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 4(3):83 >> Note: In key >> Xiphidium (Orchelimum) agile
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1911[1910]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 62:636-648
  • Karny. 1912. In Wytsman [Ed.]. Genera Insectorum 135:6
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1915. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 41:29 >> Note: Group A >> Orchelimum (Orchelimum) agile  
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1916. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 68:263 >> Orchelimum agile
  • Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of north-eastern America 539 >> Note: Group I >> Orchelimum agile  
  • Fox. 1928. Circ. New Jersey Dept. Agric. 138:28
  • Allard. 1929. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 55:155-164 >> Orchelimum agile  
  • Hebard. 1938. Entomol. News 49:36
  • Morris, G.K. & F. Walker. 1976. Canadian Ent. 108:789, 790, 794 >> Note: Distribution; calling song >> Orchelimum agile
  • Otte, D. 1997. Orthoptera Species File 7:47 >> Orchelimum agile
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 178, 179 >> Orchelimum agile
• Scrutiny:
  • Maehr, 2007, subgeneric status not recognized by most authors
• 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 glaucum Serville, 1838
• synonym molossum Rehn & Hebard, 1907
• synonym nitidum (Redtenbacher, 1891)
• synonym spinulosum (Redtenbacher, 1891)