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Shrinking Wings for Ultrasonic Pitch Production: Hyperintense Ultra-Short-Wavelength Calls in a New Genus of Neotropical Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)

This article reports the discovery of a new genus and three species of predaceous katydid (Insecta: Orthoptera) from Colombia and Ecuador in which males produce the highest frequency ultrasonic calling songs so far recorded from an arthropod. Male katydids sing by rubbing their wings together to att...

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Autores principales: Sarria-S, Fabio A., Morris, Glenn K., Windmill, James F. C., Jackson, Joseph, Montealegre-Z, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4047022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24901234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098708