Cyphoderris Strepitans (Orthoptera, Haglidae): Reproductive Behavior, Singer Movement and Predation

Coping with the cold: temperature and mating activity of male sagebrush crickets Cyphoderris strepitans (Orthoptera: Haglidae)

The effect of temperature on male sexual displays is well documented but its role in mediating the differential mating success of males is less well established. Male sagebrush crickets Cyphoderris strepitans Morris and Gwynne occur in high-elevation sagebrush meadows in mountainous areas of the western U.S.A., and often are observed singing at temperatures as low −8 to −4 °C to attract sexuall...

Biology and Reproductive Behaviour of Cyphoderris strepitans

Multivariate sexual selection on male song structure in wild populations of sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans (Orthoptera: Haglidae)

While a number of studies have measured multivariate sexual selection acting on sexual signals in wild populations, few have confirmed these findings with experimental manipulation. Sagebrush crickets are ideally suited to such investigations because mating imposes an unambiguous phenotypic marker on males arising from nuptial feeding by females. We quantified sexual selection operating on male...

Reproductive behavior of Eidmanacris corumbatai Garcia (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae).

Adult males of Eidmanacris corumbatai Garcia have reduced tegmina without stridulatory apparatus. For this reason, they developed other means ofintra-specific communication. During courtship, the males use a combination of foreleg drumming and waving of the antennae, in addition to chemical signaling through pheromones. The females become receptive to copulation when the males expose their meta...

Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan

During the Mesozoic Era there flourished a group of species of saltatorial Orthoptera of the suborder Ensifera that are included in the fBmily Haglidae, of which fossils representing more than 30 genera are known. T h e Haglidae comprise the subfamilies Elaglinae, Isfaropterinae, Cyrtophyllitinae, and Prophalangopsinae. During the upper Jurassic, according to Sharov (1971), species of the last-...