Pattern and process: Evolution of troglomorphy in the cave-planthoppers of Australia and Hawai'i - Preliminary observations (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae)

Acta Carsologica

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 199-206

  Wessel, Andreas ^a   Erbe, Petra ^a,b   Hoch, Hannelore ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Adaptive shift; Cave adaptation; Climatic relict; Founder effect; Reductive evolutionary trends; Troglobites; Troglomorphies

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CAVE; COLONIZATION; EVOLUTION; INSECT; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; CIXIIDAE; HEMIPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 33947674020     PISSN: 05836050     EISSN: 15802612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3986/ac.v36i1.222     Document Type: Article

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