The burrow morphology of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae): terminology and comparisons
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Animal Behavior, Entomology
- Keywords
- orthoptera, gryllotalpa, mole cricket, burrow, morphology, bioacoustics
- Copyright
- © 2016 Baker
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. The burrow morphology of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae): terminology and comparisons. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2664v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2664v1
Abstract
Since the publication of Baker (2016) three additional burrow casts, unknown to the author, were located in the Natural History Museum, London (NHM) collection by George Beccaloni. These casts were provisionally identified as Gryllotalpa vineae. In order to establish whether this identification was correct a literature survey of the casts of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) was conducted. Through this process a standardised terminology for mole cricket burrows has been established.
The application of eccentricity measurements to burrow structures has identified measurements that can potentially be used to discriminate those species for which suitably detailed burrow descriptions have been made available. It is demonstrated that the eccentricity of the restrictions on either side of the bulb, as well as the eccentricity of the horn opening, are useful diagnostic characters.
Author Comment
This is the first draft of this paper, that summaries the burrow morphology of mole crickets. Before submission to a journal I would prefer to have more burrow casts from known species to confirm the preliminary results.