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Recognition characters and song. This species is an egg overwintering, obligate egg diapausing, fall maturing species where adults first appear in September, and whose documented US distribution includes 3 states ( Florida , Georgia , and South Carolina) but may include as many as 6 southeastern states: Florida, Georgia , South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana ( Capinera et al . 2004 , Walker 2019 ). Head is narrower than pronotum. Males produce no calling song, but do naturally produce both aggressive and courtship songs, and can be chemically induced to produce a feeble 3–5 pulse chirp structurally similar to G. pennsylvanicus and G. firmus songs ( Gray et al. 2018 ). DNA. Multilocus 2018-001 and 2016-035, courtesy of Kevin Judge’s cultures, from samples originally from the type locality of Gainesville, FL., show (Gray et al. 2019) that nearest multilocus relative is non-taciturn, non-egg diapausing G. thinos , the latter known only from coastal Texas . In the absence of genetic sequencing data, Walker (1974) believed G. fultoni , and perhaps G. firmus , to be the nearest relatives. Harrison & Bogdanowicz (1995) showed a single clade of G. ovisopis , G. pennsylvanicus , and G. firmus with 1.3% separation for the whole group; Huang et al. (2000) found similar results.