tympanal organ

Many also have tympanal organs, that allow them to hear.

In insects, tympanal organs are used to hear distant sounds.

A dark band runs from the eye over the tympanal organ to the end of the abdomen.

Adults have tympanal organs at the forewings' base, enabling them to hear well.

In the order Coleoptera, tympanal organs have been described in at least two families.

Most sound-making insects also have tympanal organs that can perceive airborne sounds.

In the Noctuoidea, the metathorax is modified with a pair of tympanal organs.

Grasshoppers also have tympanal organs for sound reception.

Later, he demonstrated that insect hearing depends on intact tympanal organ which was the first description of this organ's function.

They lack tympanal organs, but members of the tribe Choerocampini have hearing organs on their heads.

The tympanal organs of some insects are extremely sensitive, offering acute hearing beyond that of most other animals.

Hearing structures or tympanal organs are located on different body parts such as, wings, abdomen, legs and antennae.

They do not produce sound, and lack both wings and tympanal organs ("ears") on the front tibia.

They have distinctive paired tympanal organs at the base of the abdomen (lacking in flightless females).

The female cricket fly Ormia ochracea has tympanal organs on each side of her abdomen.

Tympanal organs are hearing organs.

Regen's most important contribution to the field apart from realization that insects also detect airborne sounds was the discovery of tympanal organ's function.

The Epipleminae are notable for the sexually dimorphic tympanal organ which is unlike any other butterfly's in details of its morphology.

In other families of Lepidoptera having abdominal tympanal organs, the opening may be in a different orientation and the structures differ in shape.

The monophyly of this group is supported by the structure of the tympanal organs and the phallus attached medially to the juxta.

For example, all members of the Geometridae share distinctive paired abdominal tympanal organs that open towards the front side of the first abdominal segment.

In keeping with the lack of stridulatory adaptations, the fore tibiae do not bear tympanal organs such as those found in many Orthoptera.

Adults have tympanal organs on the metathorax that opens towards the top, and the tibial spurs have serrated edges (Scoble, 1995).

They also have thoracic tympanal organs for hearing, a trait which has a fairly broad distribution in the Lepidoptera, but the location and structure is distinctive to the family.

A tympanal organ is a hearing organ in insects, consisting of a membrane (tympanum) stretched across a frame backed by an air sac and associated sensory neurons.