Psyche: A Journal of Entomology (Jan 1969)

Visual and Acoustical Social Displays by the Grasshopper Arphia Conspersa (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

  • Robert B. Willey,
  • Ruth L. Willey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/1969/39531
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 76, no. 3
pp. 280 – 305

Abstract

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Many species of the Oedipodinae (band-wing grasshoppers) exhibit strikingly diverse social interactions invoking visual and acoustical communication between the sexes and between individuals of the same sex (Otte, 1968, 1969).