Revision and New Taxa of Fossil Prophalangopsidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera)

Gu, Jun‐Jie; Qiao, Ge‐Xia; Ren, Dong

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“…Such wing venation variability is similar to that documented in other Mesozoic orthopterans (e.g. in the Middle Jurassic Yanliao biota, and Early Cretaceous Jehol biota) by Gu et al (2009Gu et al ( , 2010 and Late Carboniferous orthopterans by Be´thoux (2008) and Gu et al (2011). The new species described here can be placed in the subfamily Cyrtophyllitinae based on the following characters: area between the base of RP and MA is separated by a cross-vein (several crossveins are partly fused); a strong CuPb; late branching of R. It can also be assigned to Liassophyllum by its MA being distinctly close to the base of RP and the broadest area between R and MA being distant to the divergence of R. These features are unique to Liassophyllum.…”

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“…As the largest family of Hagloidea, the family Haglidae now includes the subfamilies Haglopterinae, Haglinae, Isfaropterinae, Maraginae, Voliopinae, Bachariinae, Angarohaglinae and Cyrtophyllitinae (Gorochov 1995). However, this family is not common in China; most previously known species of Jurassic orthopterans from China belong to the family Prophalangopsidae (Gu et al 2010). Beyond the new specimens attributed to the Cyrtophyllitinae and a fragmentary specimen of Isfaropterinae (Hong 1983), other subfamilies of Haglidae have not yet been reported from China.…”

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The first discovery of Cyrtophyllitinae (Orthoptera, Haglidae) from the Middle Jurassic and its morphological implications

Qiao

Ren

2012

Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

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The first discovery of Cyrtophyllitinae (Orthoptera, Haglidae) from the Middle Jurassic and its morphological implications

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Ren

2012

Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

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“…2). Evidence of this establishment is the presence of symmetric wings with cells and files specialized for sound radiation in A. musicus, other Haglidae, and extinct and extant Prophalangopsidae (33)(34)(35). Because extant species of prophalangopsids use pure tones and stridulatory structures similar to those of A. musicus, we conclude that the elaborate broadband calls (see SI Text: Fossil Deposit and Venation Terminology, and Figs.…”

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Wing stridulation in a Jurassic katydid (Insecta, Orthoptera) produced low-pitched musical calls to attract females

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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, Engel and Ren sp. nov., a 165 million year old stridulating katydid. From the exceptionally preserved morphology of its stridulatory apparatus in the forewings and phylogenetic comparison with extant species, we reveal that A. musicus radiated pure-tone (musical) songs using a resonant mechanism tuned at a frequency of 6.4 kHz. Contrary to previous scenarios, musical songs were an early innovation, preceding the broad-bandwidth songs of extant katydids. Providing an accurate insight into paleoacoustic ecology, the low-frequency musical song of A. musicus was well-adapted to communication in the lightly cluttered environment of the mid-Jurassic forest produced by coniferous trees and giant ferns, suggesting that reptilian, amphibian, and mammalian insectivores could have also heard A. musicus' song.call evolution | Tettigoniidae | bushcricket | biomechanics | biological asymmetry K atydids produce species-specific calling songs that form part of the acoustic ecology of tropical forests (1, 2). The rubbing of a toothed vein on one wing against a plectrum on the other wing results in sound production by stridulation, exploiting resonant (musical) (3, 4) or nonresonant (broadband) (4, 5) biophysical mechanisms, depending on the species. Which of these two mechanisms represents ancestral sound production remains a key question in the evolution of insect acoustic communication (6)(7)(8). Here, we reconstruct the song of a katydid fossil with exceptionally well-preserved stridulatory structures, and find that musical singing at low frequencies was already established by the middle Jurassic (165 Ma). We describe this specimen as Archaboilus musicus, from the extinct family Haglidae (Orthoptera), a group basal to all extant katydids (9, 10). These findings imply that A. musicus was nocturnal, and that its call was adapted for long-range communication in an environment with light clutter (11). A recent paleobotanical reconstruction of the geometry, vegetation density, and biomass of the Jurassic Forest from northwest China (12) reveals an environment populated by coniferous trees (e.g., Araucaria) with nearest neighbor distances ranging from 1.5 to 20.3 m, and giant ferns (e.g., Angiopteris, Osmunda, and Caniopteris) occupying the lower layers of the understory forest. This forest architecture indicates a sparse vegetation density that is acoustically compatible with the proposition that the song frequency of A. musicus was well adapted to long-distance communication close to the ground. Such a forested environment would also enable long-range acoustic signaling and communication by other animals (e.g., amphibians, reptilians) as well as a variety of arthropod species (13). Systematic PaleontologyInsecta Linnaeus, 1758; Orthoptera Olivier, 1789; Haglidae Handlirsch, 1906; Cyrtophyllitinae Zeuner, 1935; Archaboilus Martynov, 1937.Archaboilus musicu...

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“…Although abundant fossil prophalangopsids have been described from the well-known Early Cretaceous Jehol biota of China, very few male Chifengiinae have been reported from this biota (Gu et al 2010). Herein, a well-preserved forewing of a male Chifengiinae is described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning (China).…”

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“…So far, Chifengiinae have been reported from the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous deposits of Russia, China, and England (Sharov 1968;Hong 1982;Zherikhin 1985;Ren et al 1995;Gorochov et al 2006;Gu et al 2010; and see below). Although abundant fossil prophalangopsids have been described from the well-known Early Cretaceous Jehol biota of China, very few male Chifengiinae have been reported from this biota (Gu et al 2010).…”

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A new Chifengiinae species (Orthoptera: Prophalangopsidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Liaoning, P.R. China)

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A new species of the family Prophalangopsidae, Ashanga borealis sp.n., is described from the Lower Gretaceous Yixian Fomation (Liaoning Province, PR. Ghina). The male forewing of the new species is similar to that of the Middle/Upper Jurassic species Ashanga clara Zherikhin 1985, but differs from it in possessing a forewing arched anterior margin, RS branching more basally, and MP + GuA, with more branches. The fossil record of Ghifengiinae is reviewed.

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Revision and New Taxa of Fossil Prophalangopsidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera)

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The first discovery of Cyrtophyllitinae (Orthoptera, Haglidae) from the Middle Jurassic and its morphological implications

The first discovery of Cyrtophyllitinae (Orthoptera, Haglidae) from the Middle Jurassic and its morphological implications

Wing stridulation in a Jurassic katydid (Insecta, Orthoptera) produced low-pitched musical calls to attract females

A new Chifengiinae species (Orthoptera: Prophalangopsidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Liaoning, P.R. China)

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