Acoustic communication is enabled by the evolution of specialised hearing and sound
producing organs. In this study, we performed a large-scale macroevolutionary study to …

Orthoptera is the most diverse order among the polyneopteran groups and includes familiar
insects, such as grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and their kin. Due to a long history of …

The Orthoptera have inhabited the Earth for ca 300 million years and today include about
25,000 described species. Although orthopterans are mainly known to the general public by …

Orthoptera is the most diverse order of polyneopterans, and the forewing and hindwing of its
members exhibit extremely variability from full length to complete loss in many groups; thus …

Among insects, tympanal ears evolved at least 18 times, resulting in a diversity of auditory
systems. Insects use their ears in different behavioural contexts, mainly intraspecific …

Orthoptera have been used for decades for numerous evolutionary questions but several of
its constituent groups, notably crickets, still suffer from a lack of a robust phylogenetic …

Behaviors are challenging to reconstruct for extinct species, particularly the nature and
origins of acoustic communication. Here we unravel the song of Archaboilus musicus Gu …

The phylogenetic relationships of Tettigoniidae (katydids and bush-crickets) were inferred
using molecular sequence data. Six genes (18S rDNA, 28S rDNA, Cytochrome Oxidase II …

Tympanal organs for hearing in the far field have evolved on multiple occasions among
insects and are currently found in seven orders. Many, if not most, cases of insect hearing …

Although mitogenomes are useful tools for inferring evolutionary history, only a few
representative ones can be used for most Ensifera lineages. Thirty-two ensiferan …