Elevational variation in voltinism demonstrates climatic adaptation in the dark bush‐cricket

The katydid that was: the tananá, stridulation, Henry Walter Bates and Charles Darwin

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2014.0216 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 131-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Claudio J. Bidau

Keyword(s):

Sexual Selection ◽

Charles Darwin ◽

Bush Cricket

The Amazonian bush-cricket or katydid, Thliboscelus hypericifolius (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae), called tananá by the natives was reported to have a song so beautiful that they were kept in cages for the pleasure of listening to the melodious sound. The interchange of letters between Henry Walter Bates and Charles Darwin regarding the tananá and the issue of stridulation in Orthoptera indicates how this mysterious insect, which seems to be very rare, contributed to the theory of sexual selection developed by Darwin.

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Ultrafast, ultrashort, and ultrasonic — the ecological and evolutionary implications of an enigmatic acoustic communication system in a bush cricket

10.1603/ice.2016.94362 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

David J. Robinson

Keyword(s):

Acoustic Communication ◽

Communication System ◽

Bush Cricket

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First Record of the Bush-Cricket Isophya Harzi (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae) Outside its Locus Typicus

Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” ◽

10.2478/v10191-012-0011-0 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 55 (2) ◽

pp. 201-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ionuţ Ştefan Iorgu ◽

Alexandru Ioan Tatu ◽

Elena Iulia Iorgu

Keyword(s):

First Record ◽

Acoustic Behaviour ◽

Bioacoustic Analysis ◽

The Subject ◽

Locus Typicus ◽

Bush Cricket

Abstract During the period 2008-2012, the bush-cricket Isophya harzi Kis, 1960 has been the subject of several collecting trips in Cozia Mountains, where it was believed to be endemic, in order to study its acoustic behaviour. However, on a recent trip to Piatra Craiului Mountains, to study its Orthoptera fauna, I. harzi was surprisingly found in clearings and mountain steppe slopes covered with tall subalpine vegetation from Northern and Western areas. Bioacoustic analysis and some ecological notes are presented in the paper.

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