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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Hump-winged Crickets (Prophalangopsidae) » Cyphoderris » Buckell’s grig (Cyphoderris buckelli)
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Mating damage to male Buckell's grig - Cyphoderris buckelli - male
Copyright © 2013 Kevin Judge

Mating damage to male Buckell's grig - Cyphoderris buckelli - Male
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
May 21, 2009
Dorsal view of the hind wings of a male C. buckelli (head is to the left). The male's fore wings are being drawn out of the way to show that this male has had his hind wings chewed by a female - meaning that he has very probably mated. All three Cyphoderris species show this mating behaviour (see Morris. 1979. Mating systems, paternal investment and aggressive behavior of acoustic Orthoptera. Fla Entomol 62:9-17). I have posted a video of it to youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsx3Fp4Rjqs
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Contributed by Kevin Judge on 11 July, 2013 - 1:28am

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