Comparison of the use of active vision for depth perception in three grasshopper families (Orthoptera: Caelifera)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 339-345

  Kral, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acridids; Caelifera; Catantopids; Orthoptera; Pygmy grasshoppers

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRASSHOPPER; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTION; VISION;

ACRIDIDAE; CAELIFERA; CATANTOPINAE; ORTHOPTERA; TETRIGIDAE;

EID: 63749105679     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/008.102.0217     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Bellmann, H. 2006. Der Kosmos Heuschreckenführer. Die Arten Mitteleuropas sicher bestimmen. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart, Germany.
2. Collett, T. S. 1978. Peering - a locust behaviour pattern for obtaining motion parallax information. J. Exp. Biol. 76: 237-241.
3. Collett, T. S. 2002. Insect vision: controlling actions through optic flow. Curr. Biol. 11: R615-R617.
4. Dirsh, V. M. 1975. Classification of the acridomorphoid insects. Farringdon, Oxford, Classey, United Kingdom.
5. Eriksson, E. S. 1980. Movement parallax and distance perception in the grasshopper (Phaulacridium vittatum (Sjöstedt)). J. Exp. Biol. 86: 337-340.
6. Goodwyn, P. P., A. Peressadko, H. Schwarz, V. Kastner, and S. Gorb. 2006. Material structure, stiffness, and adhesion: why attachment pads of the grasshopper (Tetiigonia viridissima) adhere more strongly than those of the locust (Locusta migratoria) (Insecta: Orthoptera). J. Comp. Physiol. A 192: 1233-1243.
7. Hennig, W. 1969. Die Stammesgeschichte der Insekten. Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Frankfurt am Main. Verlag, Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
8. Kral, K. 1999. Binocular vision and distance estimation, pp. 114-140. In F. R. Prête, H. Wells, P. H. Wells, and L. E. Hurd [eds. ], The praying man rids: research perspectives. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.
9. Krai, K 2008a. Similarities and differences in the peering-jump behavior of three grasshopper species (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Insect Sci. 15: 369-374.
10. Kral, K. 2008b. Spatial vision in binocular and monocular common field grasshoppers (Chorthippus brunneus). Physiol. Entomol. 33: 233-237.
11. Kral, K., and M. Poteser. 1997. Motion parallax as a source of distance information in locusts and mantids. J. Insect Behav. 10: 145-163.
12. Kral, K, and D. Devetak. 1999. The visual orientation strategies of Mantis religiosa and Empusa fasciata reflect differences in the structure of their visual surroundings. J. Insect Behav. 12: 737-752.
13. Poteser, M., and K. Kral. 1995. Visual distance discrimination in praying mantis larvae: an index of the use of motion parallax. J. Exp. Biol. 198: 2127-2137.
14. Poteser, M., M.-A. Pabst, and K. Kral. 1998. Proprioceptive contribution to distance estimation by motion parallax in a praying mantid. J. Exp. Biol. 201: 1483-1491.
15. Rathet, I. H., and L. E. Hurd. 1983. Relationships of three co-occurring mantids, Tenodera sinensis (Saussure), T. angustipennis (Saussure), and Mantis religiosa (Linnaeus). Am. Midl. Nat. 110: 240-248.
16. Sharov, A. G. 1968. Filogeniya orthopteroidnykh nas-ekomykh (Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea). Trans. Paleontol. Acad. Sci. 118: 1-216.
17. Shepheard, P. 1974. Control of head movement in the locust, Schistocerca gregaria. J. Exp. Biol. 60: 735-767.
18. Sobel, E. C. 1990. The locust's use of motion parallax to measure distance. J. Comp. Physiol. 167: 579-588.
19. Srinivasan, M. V., M. Lehrer, and G. A. Horridge. 1990. Visual figure-ground discrimination in the honeybee: the role of motion parallax at boundaries. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 238: 331-350.
20. Wallace, G. K. 1959. Visual scanning in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria Forskål. J. Exp. Biol. 36: 512-552.