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Locustini

Tribe · 6 recordings · 4 specimens

Contains

Gastrimargus1
Locusta4
Oedaleus1
Psophus0

Recordings

576:14 Locusta migratoria migratorioides (253a)4:33 · W. J. Reynolds
576:15 Locusta migratoria migratorioides (253b)5:08 · W. J. Reynolds
598:36 Gastrimagus marmoratus (671r36)3:48 · E. Sismondo
Locusta migratoria0:50
Oedalus infernalis0:46
390:9 Locusta migratoria cinerascens(333)7:52 · W. J. Reynolds

Specimens

Locusta migratoria cinerascens NHMUK BMNH(E) 010211301
Locusta migratoria cinerascens NHMUK BMNH(E) 010211302
Locusta migratoria migratoria NHMUK BMNH(E) 010211304
Locusta migratoria migratoria NHMUK BMNH(E) 010211305

Literature

Moir, H. M.; Jackson, Joseph Curt; Windmill, James F.C. (2011). No evidence for DPOAEs in the mechanical motion of the locust tympanum.
Hoy, Ronald R.; Nolen, Tom; Brodfuehrer, Peter (1989). The neuroethology of acoustic startle and escape in flying insects.
Adam, L. J. (1983). Hind femora influence directionality of the locust ear. Journal of Comparative Physiology ? A, 152(4): 509 - 516.
Otte, Daniel (1972). Communicative aspects of reproductive behaviour in Australian grasshoppers (Oedipodinae and Gomphocerinae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 20(2): 139.
Bar-Ilan, A. R.; Shulov, A. S.; Pener, M. P. (1969). The Stridulation of Sexually Mature Males of Locusta migratoria migratorioides (R. and F.) in Relation to Temperature and Some Other Factors. Physiological Zoology, 42(4): 417 - 428.

Behaviour

They rub a smooth stridulatory keel on the inner side of the hind femur again a raised, toothed strodulatory vein in the medial area of the fore wing. Well-defined courtship songs are absent.

Source: Bellman, Heiko (1988). A Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Britain and Northern Europe. William Collins & Sons.

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