The first description of an American field cricket of the genus Gryllus was published by Fabricius in 1775 when he described Acheta assimilis from Jamaica. By beginning of the 20th century no less than forty-seven New World species of Gryllus had been described (Blatchley, 1903), thirty-three of these were as recognized valid by Kirby (1906). Practically all the early workers on this group considered macro-morphology only: such characters as size, coloration, wing venation, body proportions, number and relative length of tibial spines, and the length of tegmina, wings, ovipositor and the hind femora.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113495 |
| Date | January 1961 |
| Creators | Rakshpal, Ram. |
| Contributors | Kevan, D. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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