A PHYLOGENETIC TEST OF TROGLOBITIC ADAPTA TION IN CRICKETS (INSECTA, ORTHOPTERA, GRYLLOIDEA)

Authors
DESUTTERGRANDCOLAS L
Citation
L. Desuttergrandcolas, A PHYLOGENETIC TEST OF TROGLOBITIC ADAPTA TION IN CRICKETS (INSECTA, ORTHOPTERA, GRYLLOIDEA), Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 3, Sciences de la vie, 317(10), 1994, pp. 907-912
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 3, Sciences de la vie → ACNP
ISSN journal
07644469
Volume
317
Issue
10
Year of publication
1994
Pages
907 - 912
Database
ISI
SICI code
0764-4469(1994)317:10<907:APTOTA>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
The adaptation to cave life is analysed in a monophyletic group of neo tropical crickets, the Amphiacustae, in reference to their phylogeny a nd to the evolution of their habitats. The most parsimonious scenario shows two independent cave colonisations and one reversal toward epige an life. Also the ancestral habitat of the Amphiacustae is characteriz ed by leaf litter foraging (straminicoly) and hidding in cavities at g round level during inactivity periods (= cavicoly). Cavicoly, thus def ined may be exaptative to cave life.