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The Hawaiian Planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha) and Their Courtship Songs

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Biotremology: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution

Part of the book series: Animal Signals and Communication ((ANISIGCOM,volume 8))

Abstract

The Hawaiian islands are among the most isolated archipelagos in the world. Previous research has revealed what are now classic examples for adaptive radiation and rapid evolution of diversity in geologically young, geographically dynamic, and ecologically rich environments in various groups of organisms, many of them pertaining to insects. An important group of Hawaii’s endemic insect fauna are the Fulgoromorpha (Hemiptera). Most Hemiptera communicate by surface-borne vibrational signals in order to locate and recognize potential mating partners. Here we document the vibrational courtship calls of 6 Cixiidae (ca. 10% of the Hawaiian species) and 34 endemic and 4 immigrant Delphacid species (ca. 25% of Hawaii’s species), and provide information on their distribution and host plant associations. The vibrational signals of Hawaii’s planthoppers constitute a hitherto neglected aspect of the diversity of Hawaiian organisms. We point out threats to the conservation of Hawaii’s planthoppers and indicate potential research opportunities for further study of signal evolution.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Bishop Museum and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, for hosting us during various research stays, especially Scott E. Miller, Ken Y. Kaneshiro, and Hampton L. Carson, for their support, encouragement, and valuable discussions. Mahalo nui loa to all the people who made our fieldwork possible by granting permits, access to their properties, by pointing out interesting sites and rare plants, and by helping with collections. The work presented here could not have been conducted without the help of many people, e.g., Frank G. Howarth, Fred D. Stone, William P. Mull, Jon Giffin, Betsy Gagné, Steve Montgomery, David Preston, Raina Takumi, and Randy Bartlett, to name only a few. Funding was provided by various grants of the German Research Council (DFG) to M.A. and H.H. The M.Sc. research project of C.O-R. was supported by the Hawaii Bishop Research Institute and a University of Hawaii Seed grant. We dedicate this contribution to Kenneth Y. Kaneshiro (see Fig. 5.1a), University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, in acknowledgment for his outstanding contribution to Hawaiian evolutionary and conservation biology, and to the late William P. Mull, formerly of Volcano village, Hawaii Island, naturalist and aikane nui (good friend), who introduced us to the magic of a Hawaiian forest and who took great pleasure in listening in on the silent sounds of Hawaiis creatures.

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    Manfred Asche, Hannelore Hoch & Andreas Wessel

  2. Eaton Peabody Lab, Mass Eye & Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell

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Asche, M., Hoch, H., O’Connell-Rodwell, C., Wessel, A. (2022). The Hawaiian Planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha) and Their Courtship Songs. In: Hill, P.S.M., Mazzoni, V., Stritih-Peljhan, N., Virant-Doberlet, M., Wessel, A. (eds) Biotremology: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution. Animal Signals and Communication, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97419-0_5

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