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Cave-dwelling insects are among the most widespread and prominent troglofauna (cave-dwelling animals), including troglobites, troglophiles, and trogloxenes. As a category of ecological adaptations, such insects are significant in many senses, ecological, evolutionary, and physiological.
Cave-dwelling insects are among the most widespread and prominent troglofauna (cave-dwelling animals), including troglobites, troglophiles, and trogloxenes...
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sex-reversed caveinsects". BBC. Retrieved April 18, 2014. Yoshizawa K, Ferreira R.L., Kamimura Y & Lienhard C. "A Transgender Brazilian CaveInsect". The Winnower...
produce a blue-green bioluminescence. The species is known to dwell in caves and on sheltered banks in native bush where humidity is high. Its Māori...
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous...
aquatic troglobites include cave fish, and cave salamanders such as the olm and the Texas blind salamander. Caveinsects such as Oligaphorura (formerly...
suborder Ensifera has a worldwide distribution. Common names for these insects include cave crickets, camel crickets, spider crickets (sometimes shortened to...
species of Arachnocampa are endemic to Australia and New Zealand, dwelling in caves and grottos, or sheltered places in forests. A previous synonym was "Bolitiphila...
Insects have mouthparts that may vary greatly across insect species, as they are adapted to particular modes of feeding. The earliest insects had chewing...
carvings. In 2010, it was discovered that due to damp conditions in the caveinsect larvae and worms were infesting and damaging the walls and carvings,...
places. Originating in the caves of eastern Asia, it is omnivorous, sometimes carnivorous, or a scavenger of dead insects and other organic material....
The insect's specific name, aaa, is derived from ʻaʻaʻā, the Hawaiian word for "lava tube". Cavaticovelia aaa is known from the Kazumura Cave system...
Oliarus priola, the Maui cave planthopper, is a species of Oliarus planthopper endemic to the island of Maui, where it inhabits lava tubes. Oliarus priola...
North America. They produce the bluest light of any studied bioluminescent insect. O. fultoni was discovered in the early 1940s near a spring in Glenville...
Lienhard, for their discovery of a female penis, and a male vagina, in a caveinsect. Fluid Dynamics: Jiwon Han, for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing...
Oliarus polyphemus, the Hawai'i cave planthopper, is a species of Oliarus planthopper endemic to the island of Hawai'i, where it inhabits lava tubes and...
as the Simandoa cave roach, is a species of cockroach that is considered extinct in the wild. However, it is kept as a pet by insect hobbyists and is...
Lovelock Cave (NV-Ch-18) is a North American archaeological site previously known as Sunset Guano Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Loud Site 18. The cave is about...
Oliarus kalaupapae, the Moloka'i cave planthopper, is a species of Oliarus planthopper endemic to the island of Moloka'i, where it inhabits lava tubes...
in caves. The Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, for example, contain large populations of B. petiolata. This species primarily eats small insects, especially...
common cave cricket, or Mammoth Cave cricket is a species of camel cricket in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is found in North America. These insects use...
the giant pseudo-scorpion of the Algarve caves (Titanobochica magna) and the largest terrestrial caveinsect in Europe, Squamatinia algharbica. Wikimedia...
Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the...
The caves of Aruba, located on the windward side within the Arikok National Park, comprise notable formations such as Quadirikiri Cave, Fontein Cave, and...
the common name Kaumana cave cricket. It is endemic to the island of Hawai'i, where it inhabits the dark zone of lava tube caves. Caconemobius varius is...
Grylloblatta siskiyouensis is a species of insect in the family Grylloblattidae. Its type locality is in Oregon Caves National Monument in the United States...
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