Adhesive properties of the arolium of a lantern-fly, Lycorma delicatula (Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoridae)

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 818-827

  Frantsevich, Leonid ^a,b   Ji, Aihong ^a   Dai, Zhendong ^a   Wang, Jintong ^a   Frantsevich, Ludmila ^a,b   Gorb, Stanislav N ^b,c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b SCHMALHAUSEN INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Attachment devices; Friction; Insect locomotion; Stick slip

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; FLY; LOCOMOTION; STICK-SLIP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYNAMOMETER; HEMIPTERA; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; EXTREMITIES; HEMIPTERA; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; VIDEO RECORDING;

AUCHENORRHYNCHA; FULGORIDAE; HEXAPODA; LYCORMA DELICATULA;

EID: 44449093055     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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