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Surface contact and design of fibrillar 'friction pads' in stick insects (Carausius morosus)
Many stick insects and mantophasmids possess tarsal 'heel pads' (euplantulae) covered by arrays of conical, micrometre-sized hairs (acanthae). These pads are used mainly under compression; they respond to load with increasing...
Jumping without slipping: leafhoppers (Hemiptera
Christofer J Clemente, Hanns Hagen Goetzke, James MR Bullock, Gregory P Sutton, Malcolm Burrows, Walter Federle
May 21, 2018
Many hemipteran bugs can jump explosively from plant substrates, which can be very smooth. We therefore analysed the jumping performance of froghoppers (Philaenus spumarius, Aphrophoridae) and leafhoppers (Aphrodes...