A New Host Family for \u3ci\u3eLyroda Subita\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) [PDF]
, 2017 Lyroda subita, a sphecid that ordinarily stocks its cells with Gryllidae, is reported provisioning a two-celled nest in upstate New York with Tridactylidae.
Kurczewski, Frank E, Spofford, Margery G
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Nature Communications, 2020 Song et al. inferred that stridulatory wings and tibial ears co-evolved in a sexual context among crickets, katydids, and their allies, while abdominal ears evolved first in a non-sexual context in grasshoppers, and were later co-opted for courtship ...
Hojun Song +12 more
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Habitat fragmentation affects plant-arthropod interactions through connectivity loss and edge effects. [PDF]
EcologyAbstract Habitat fragmentation is widespread globally, but the effects of fragmentation on populations and communities are often unclear. Because species responses to fragmentation are interdependent, examining how fragmentation alters species interactions may clarify community responses to fragmentation. In a large, replicated fragmentation experiment,
Hulting KA, Smith TAH, Haddad NM.
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Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades [PDF]
, 2014 The Linnaean Society, The British Ecological Society, The Russell Trust (St. Andrews), The Orthopterists' Society and an NSERC (Canada) grant to DTG. Gordon S.
Bailey, Nathan William +3 more
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Functional equivalence of grasping cerci and nuptial food gifts in promoting ejaculate transfer in katydids. [PDF]
, 2014 The function of nuptial gifts has generated longstanding debate. Nuptial gifts consumed during ejaculate transfer may allow males to transfer more ejaculate than is optimal for females.
Alexander +58 more
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Novitates Caribaea, 2014 The conocephaline katydids Erechthis gundlachi Bolívar, 1888 and Pyrgocorypha uncinata (Harris, 1841) are recorded for the first time from the Dominican Republic and the island of Hispaniola.
Daniel E. Perez-Gelabert
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A new, rare and distinctive species of Panorthoptera (Insecta, Archaeorthoptera) from the Upper Carboniferous of Xiaheyan (Ningxia, China) [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2017 The Xiaheyan locality is providing abundant material on one of the earliest insect faunas. The most common species are comparatively remote relatives of Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets and katydids), belonging to the Archaeorthoptera nec ...
J.-J. Gu +3 more
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An Annotated List of the Orthoptera of Beaver Island, Lake Michigan [PDF]
, 2017 Thirty-six species of Orthoptera were collected from Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan. Species distribution was Tetrigidae, 4; Acrididae, 16; Tettigoniidae, 8; Gryllacrididae, 1; and Gryllidae ...
Bland, R. G
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Adapting the Dragonfly Biotic Index to a katydid (Tettigoniidae) rapid assessment technique: case study of a biodiversity hotspot, the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa [PDF]
Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2017 Global biodiversity faces many challenges, with the conservation of invertebrates among these. South Africa is megadiverse and has three global biodiversity hotspots. The country also employs two invertebrate-based rapid assessment techniques to evaluate
Aileen C. Thompson +3 more
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Altruism during predation in an assassin bug [PDF]
, 2013 Zelus annulosus is an assassin bug species mostly noted on Hirtella physophora, a myrmecophyte specifically associated with the ant Allomerus decemarticulatus known to build traps on host tree twigs to ambush insect preys. The Z.
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