Originally Posted by Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

Some exciting news for entomologists: a new species of tree cricket has been found in the United States. On May 16, 2009, Nancy Collins from Wisconsin and Laurel Symes, a PhD candidate at Dartmouth University, heard a tree cricket sing at Resaca de la Palma State Park and World Birding Center in Brownsville. On a return trip in June they found another cricket at Bentsen Rio Grande State Park, another World Birding Center in Mission. Further analysis by Dr. Thomas J. Walker, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida-Gainesville,andnbsp;revealed that it was an unnamed species of Oecanthus.andnbsp; Collins says that it will be called Alexander's tree cricket, in respect of R. D. Alexander who first discovered them in Mexico in the 1960s.