Tympanal hearing in insects

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 433-450

  Hoy, R R ^a   Robert, D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic insect; Acoustic parasitism; Auditory evolution; Chordotonal organ; Tympanum

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030019387     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.en.41.010196.002245     Document Type: Article

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