Jumping behaviour in a Gondwanan relict insect (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha: Peloridiidae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3311-3318

  Burrows, Malcolm ^a   Hartung, Viktor ^b   Hoch, Hannelore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hemiptera; Jumping; Kinematics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

CERCOPIDAE; CICADELLIDAE; HACKERIELLA VEITCHI; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; PELORIDIIDAE; PELORIDIOMORPHA;

EID: 35648936982     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.007914     Document Type: Article

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