Ecology of the calling song of two namibian armoured ground crickets, acanthoplus longipes and acanthoproctus diadematus (Orthoptera tettigoniidae hetrodinae)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 261-269

  Conti, E ^a   Viglianisi, F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Armoured ground crickets; Behavioural; Calling song; Stridulatory organ

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CRICKET; SONG;

ACANTHOPLUS; NEMOBIINAE; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 32644431685     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2005.9522596     Document Type: Article

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