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Historical use of substrate‐borne acoustic production within the Hemiptera: first record for an Australian Lophopid (Hemiptera, Lophopidae)

2007; Wiley; Volume: 46; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1440-6055.2007.00566.x

1440-6055

Adeline Soulier‐Perkins, Jérôme Sueur, Hannelore Hoch,

Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy

Abstract Here the first record of communication through substrate‐borne vibrations for the Lophopidae family is reported. The signals from Magia subocellata that the authors recorded were short calls with a decreasing frequency modulation. Acoustic vibrations have been observed for other families within the Hemiptera and a scenario concerning the historical use of vibrational communication within the Hemiptera is tested using a phylogenetic inference. The most parsimonious hypothesis suggests that substrate‐borne communication is ancestral for the hemipteran order and highlights the groups for which future acoustic research should be undertaken.