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Shrinking wings for ultrasonic pitch production: hyperintense ultra-short-wavelength calls in a new genus of neotropical katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Sarria-S Fabio A, Morris Glenn K, Windmill James F C, Jackson Joseph, Montealegre-Z Fernando
Abstract excerpt
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...
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