''Gryllus texensis'' is a

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described by William H. Cade and

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in (2000). Cade and Otte clarify that field crickets collected in the

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identified as '' Gryllus integer'', were in fact misidentified, and should have been classified as ''G. texensis''. Morphologically, Cade and Otte found no differences between ''G. texensis'' and ''

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'', however, their call song structure was significantly different (see Gray and Cade (1999)).

References

Taxonomic identification of G. texensis (Cade and Otte, 2000)

Phylogenetic description showing G. rubens and G. texensis as closest relatives based on mitochondrial DNA (Huang et al. 2000)
{{Taxonbar, from=Q5612419 texensis Insects described in 2000 Taxa named by Dan Otte Taxa named by William H. Cade