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THE TEGMINAL POSITION IN GRYLLUS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Frank. E. Lutz
Frank. E. Lutz
Affiliation:
Cold Spring Hareour, Long Island, N. Y.
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In Chap. X of the Descent of Man, Darwin says that when the male of Gryllus campestris is chirping, “first one wing is rubbed over the other, and then the movement is reverse.” I have carefully observed several hundred males of our native Gryllus, and it seems to me that one tegmen (“wing”) is always uppermost. This is, at first sight, a very minor point, but it leads to some rather interesting thoughts.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 38 , Issue 6 , June 1906 , pp. 207 - 209
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1906

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* There seem to me to be more fundamental differences between Gryllotalpa, Grylloides and Gryllus than between Gryllus and the Lacustidæ