“…Soft-bodied jumpers have been observed in two phyla and eight families: Steinernematidae (Campbell and Kaya, 1999a,b;Reed and Wallace, 1965), Tephritidae (Maitland, 1992;Suenaga et al, 1992), Mycetophilidae (Camazine, 1986), Piophilidae (Bonduriansky, 2002), Ichneumonidae (Day, 1970;Saeki et al, 2016), Thyrididae (Humphreys and Darling, 2013), Drosophilidae (Marinov et al, 2015) and Cecidomyiidae. There are over 6203 known species and 736 genera in the family Cecidomyiidae distributed throughout the world (Gagné and Jaschhof, 2014), several of which have been reported to jump (Tokuhisa et al, 1979;Manier and Deamer, 2014;Milne, 1961), suggesting an abundance of subjects for studying hydrostatic jumping mechanisms (Table 2).…”