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- dids (8-14 md 13-21 mm body length, re- timed have m ob~ati~ll~ exis* Adults saidub mdc my uping quipmen1 superspectively) with reduced wings are striking of L. 8ilwSUk were slso feud Rom April to fluour. and I wn quite wha~ I tinally for tbsir lmggq nhph buds with VOM- June but not m October. found Pwwia ni@wnarghata, which is one nous eyes. They & huntem. Moving pay From the above presentalbm as wall as re- of the few g piccudha are fued with tha nrwt e y in ~ a rulu fm~ additional katydids of other sub- ~nnplw; CO&%& -* optisimil~ to thc behaviOm of nUntid~. II is in- familied. I conclude mat in aopicsl Asia west@ to wuch than Nniry their held. many Teaigonioidea do not brood cdntinutowudfliu~orflyins~. Itthe nuly.butonly haveons~rionpor yesr fly bxmm mo&mk for a whik Lipo- with a disinct phmology. Sludyii the faotacmquiddyboarintasqbutifit- tom that regularc mscdity might thus be as close emugh md MmIinues moving, Lipo- ac~~istic suocassion of pladts4nd grasshop roetwwillmtoorjumponitspeyfroma pas1 This f m of pion& species is much disuncsofupto20cm mdgnbitwiththa less divana that of the canopy, but sevmandibles. It .la urcs the fordega to hold eral inmesting spies wars repxesented with largcr insecu In the laboratmy, I could breed sufficient abundance for behioral studies. larvas from huchhp to adults. using Dro- Back m Europe, I conunod Christian0 Amesophila n the only food. H d e s wue dcgruw in Puir w dewmine voucher spgialsoGaptlnsdbymsadults,andeven* 0RTHOI'l'EROUK;ICAL STUDIES mens from my behavionl studies and same of Tencbrio larvae wue tudily eaten when IN EASTERN ECUADOR Vd 0 o h gr.sshappan found in the old field given by forceps. by d ~ e s a n d m t h a ~ d f r ~ c u t Stridulation is similar in both species. It is Klaus Riede mes. To ow suqnh, ~ material wna &w song, close to or in the ulam- Zmlogischec~t uhredsevaallmdasnibsdspeciesandwas ic range: a very faint "as118ws". which I was Alkma. 218 W-7800 distinctly diffacnt fmm the b i a n muerid able to hear no fanher than half a meter Raburg. F.R.Q. collected by C. Ameclegnaba and Mtuius Deaway. scamps. We rePlized th.1 thsn were a lot of The eggs, also similar in both species, are hspiteitsmndlaruEcvdorisaco\mhy adanisms w expect in Enudor which stimblack. longovoid, and about 3 mm long. The of megadiversity and must be mnskimd a ulamdmyhudngfever. Siucethssoneach dace of the chmion is stippled and bears a real lnbmby of evolution Bodes the fidd~ripm~Idali&~ttneto network of polyhedra with pominent border- well-known Oalapagos Islmds, tha mdmd looking for unknown gnrbolrpas in thc tree lines. The eggs were readily laid in pieces of ~nt&ihP M KC- of "h&W idnds'. top. Them arc lots of pmibilities for getpolystyrol standig vertically in the cage% a mainly determined by microclinuta and alti- ting mataial fran there. Dese~mps collected behavior usdy found in species that ovipos- tude. Two Andean chains sepsruc great systematically by cutting a hectare of forest. it m plant stsms. blockr of PwiEc and Amm rainfmt, in- However, this is tm expenqive for a one-man The eggs of L. sihwtrir developeQ at 24' clwiing all the ecological gradients 6om eqdition Besides, it seamed solseless to C ind on moist filter papa, in about two uppl montane to lowland forrst The Am- cut ue+s in an area ~mder heavy envimmnmmonths (65 + 5 days). Larvae of this species zonian pm of Ecuador comprises 48% of the ld streas, whem new mads wue being built werekedincagesof43x25~40~mwitha national unitny. The area was nearly for- daily. I -fore concenirded on semhing 6&Wm lamp as a so- of light md gom until 1967. when the dimcry of oil in freshly at tww along mads or in fields warmth Up to 26 young or 12 medium- stimulltsd the "developmnt" of the region mads for subsistence faming by the mdigesized lmr to .dulfs could be kept m the Since rhsn. public mlerest has shified to the nous population. same cage without cannibalism ommhg. "Oriente"; roads were built and boomtom Ecuadorian Amazonia is far from homoge- Plants stood in thc cages for srmc~'al diver- wnc mto beii Wi six indigenous low- neous. Several volcanoes rise above the Amsity or as hiding placw but wue ~ver cata lud~~longthanthawarIikeW.or6ni, azon lowland forest and their specific mounby Lipducter. Male larvas moulted seven he region is stin consi&xed to be wild md tain forests harbcf a gmt Way of unknown times. fen& larvas eight times before bc- dmganu.and~msrunrralinhopes endemic species. The altjp.dinal border for coming adults. Developnau time from lhrtthis w a ~ s o . campy grarshv is not known exactlyhPtching to imago varied becwm five md Wha I Grst visited the Chime . . in 1983, I I collected specimens up to l2OO m which eight months (151-206 days in males. 185- p-toMuay- behavior in would mean that a lot of e h are to be 233 days in faah). Addine two months for Auidoidu PiMloed by be dqmbmnt of ex* in isolated m &fm, egg developnenl, told devebpnat uLa Rof. Huh a the Mu Plmck Institute for those which ginlle the volc liLe Sengay, seven to ten months, thus laving two to five behavioral physiology in Seewiesa, my p- Sumbro. and RevmuQr, a the sub-Andem months for imaginal life. Thas is obvii ject md my brkgmund wm abolow and mountain chain of the Cordillera & Cumcu. only one genrarion pa year. since in addi- behavioral plyriology. Having bosn imprhu- In the foUowin~ cauribotio~ to this mintion I travelled to Thailand in different sea- ed with a European image of a grassfeeding, isaies I will dcacribc my experimce dmkg am. I collected infomution on the phenolo- stridulating gomphowine grasshopper, I seven1 field bips bm+sca 1983 and 1989. csgy in the field. which agrees with the found my Cmt enanmer with forat grns- pecidly with indiga~~us people of the Sionabreeding data I found adults of L, mont~yb hoppas huttnting. Most rpcdes of Amua- Secoya trik and give puliminmy repm fmm April to Junq young larvas in Septem- nian "gasshoppers" live up in thc campy, abut the Mtai.l couec&a d lmalyzoa. be^ and Octoba, older larvae (mm = second thusinnowaycuniindto"grns",bUtfetd For anyone inercsml. mos of h s d a l is to last irutar) in January and February. and a mg on dimtylcdom wee# and cpi&ts. now wited in tha 4 uwm~ . Nrtionde few lm instar larvas together with adults in Many pics .n h r w a 8ptuow. d'Hirmire NaDmlle de Park and duplh April and May. (Fmm the months not men- with big eyes and long mi. Their inabilit to M be found in the labonlory of thc PUCE,
FEATURES tho Pontifica Univrrsidad Catolica dd kua- After 0-8 tha aggsrsive .ad sub- unou of 15 a and - hales n mly sea. dot, Quim. md at the SasMg Museum, missive diup1.y~ of many mimal spies. P~hyNa balnMi h sing day and FrmKua/M. P.R.G. Most of them us Aai- Dararin stated bia prinoiple of mtithesis. night and malea and fades form dense agdoidea, but a cmsidaable number of Tetligo- Amblyccqpha pw&Mb expmwI dtha- &regUiDna at tho ads of brmcka of relativeniidseh.ve~00natedalso. ~iaininrmanulas~edtointawnul ly amall live oak in the ustan Sim dcptimllldinrcspmwahypo~ Madre. Unlike my othcr Putophyl& zpcias cfmcmhg iie behavior. Arnblycorypho with which I am familiar. this 8pak has ~ & M b ~ ~ ~ ~ stwo cola p w b(purple j and ~ green) which wing nrs of sound mpf An rmlvsisofdIonMin~bvmirsof CpBdarml~133m&i&&~ap1 ADVENTURES WITH shDwsdth.tmd~at40pain- ANTITYPES AND ANTTHBFS d&mvllrbawcaphMu by ~ u ~ t h a & g r e 4 d - Kclmcrb C. Shaw ptnus warlap In mnwq wba DrpmDant of Zoology md Ganstics cuckiq hlulrd were placd cqui- Iowa State Univenb Ames. IA 50011 dismu ktwa !he deg thc rue of d output inad because of My most lab and 6dd xive~mes demdq pbluc intCNak while have bea with two atypical species. The ovedrp incrd (O.llian -1. ~~b.I~Bolh..LLp.lr 1-bD.LKi) scribed at tho 5th bnemabd Mwhg of One .ntimcll in mir s~udy wu the CutbpOnhoplarirtr' Socicly in Segmi.. Spaih mU w d winmm ovarlllppsl loathis)astslrmma,waa~~gour enmaewhrnfernsleswae~bot~ r n Rdngtwoamma ~ ~hforchnvrilufydidrthatwouldring wha~femdedwe~pormt Wehdprsdiot- indivimuls in a cage &IS in tha pmpk and mue in tha llbaatory. Amblycoryprko ad mU tb mrlo hi would win tho fenuk's phrcwhinrcarrrPodinicolstionrn pw@mk (Rg. 1) males chaw in a uuique Yoot" would warlap the ads of the o k green Likendgnmyiwur4mirspecio fuhion: pain of males llremsre phrusr &'I phrased mae not loss. Mib Greun- may @u= V ~ Y * P O P POP- ~ ~ qucntly mdapph& the ad of ths ohds field (1990) suggesmd that tha name of cho- lrrrolrr eqLa*d in 1970 d 1980 and the in- ~snQwhcnphnscswdap,thsysyn- nuing~birsdbyuchspcciecwasthars- s&m defoliated 1200,000 hecUrOI of forrst sultofmalw~mptingtokeeptho in tho 0~1tcm S h Madm in 1980 @mien. moat infrmudve poxtion of thcir tor 1988). soq phrrsa he h overlap by Ending on an anticlimactic no& poputhephnscpof 0thermalcs.Tbemt lati01u of P. kitrani. like those of P. infamative poniol, of A. pvipmak cmlljfolk* exhibit dnamce in rong pnd llulcphmeswouldlppurmbcthe nmphology (Alsxendcr 1967. 1968, Shaw sna acausc tha mmid *a- and Curlson 1969; North and Shaw 1975). lomcrirelouQthathcinitiaI Usiq hue diffae~~~, Ludivina (Bmie~tos mas. In addition, the female clicks 1988) hu idea5ed four populloiont of P. ocumingimmediuslykfonaafbr hibani, aftas mllecring ova a mnall ponion t h o ~ ~ o f a m a l e 'of s ths ~ pbable my of this sped& Using uWy n 'farmed" bj fhe #ma- thus same daemcu, skd chitled motomes of m ovalapping msic The mmiC confusion bctween two sib* speck. -1. ,~~I~CV&~~~~*M~.SILI,W& lll-k D. kN&J ~~WIUOIW of malappod nd OW- P. bs&rMi and P, robcnsi. The sacc wim hwing males slip s o f bc- which lfvso Muican pies ro ~~Ueaed duonizc~~smmdspmQccdbysin- uunofsbwingofphmvrmnc~bytk and tho b c l e and easily detcctrd popglc wingmkes). Amblycorypha pwipmis male rcrminaring his ph&a lu lieu of our Mon diEua~tiuion have srLrmlwd Ludivinuler produce much long- phma (4-5 s) ~ A . p v ~ m a l e s d i d t h a nadmetoseskfundingtornsxtcldhorm- ~ - and mydl shorm maw& bctwem phrm simatleastinthapssarcoftkfrmak phological. acoustic and initial breeding (3-4 s) than Wical manbcn of the subfamily The 0th 8lypio.l specia I b e bemmc srudiea u wall aa iniliaIing molecular genetic Flmeropmiw (Shaw uf d. 1990). intcmted in is Ptaophyf& brbm', pig. 2) studies. As with P. ~Il~dia, we hqx to Like females of other phammpk&w. A. tho "mipamy" hodid dnmrhusram Mexi- e&wunm cwrset unus and widnrs of inpwipmk females dvuiise their pmmm co. This upxias was tho ropic of a paper pro- tertaesaing between P. k&rmi poplhio118 by clicking at spcEiss-identifying mmals saued at the Sewvia meeting by Dr. Uvi- and even bemom P. &&rani md P. robern'. following he d of nuls song Mits. In M Bmienms. I met Ludivma and P. &bani A pelimii isozyme mslyrl of 56 zpcimost spciea fanale dicks follow relatively on - a trip to M& m 1985. Since Ihn. I mans h om mmlarion of P. be&rmM1 reshoamrlephrrsa. A m b ~ p h a p m h.veplblishedaplpwonthc.~~UJtiFbc- ~ solved thiny pu&Ptive ;me loci with 43% frmsLg nltansrs 1-17 (x = 3.2) clicks with hmiot of thi~ specia - (Shaw md ~3alliart of thsls lai mlmorchic il(ratk and Shaw. malc phanatomu within a &s phrase. ian~ ---.p unplblished): Tho &el df average gene di: How==. 75% of d ticks fall appoxknatc- For those of you unfami1i.r with this vonity (Ha = 0.16) ia high enough to svplart IY oquallY just befa or phona- PICIO~~I~~ mdu rypiuny sing at inmpqhtion hybridksh (Bsnon and Hemma of a male's crl. 1990). night me talleat at we db- win 1985).
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