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IRINA SHUMAKOVA, VIKTOR FURSOV, DMITRI GLADUN & LEONID FRANTSEVICH

Swimming in the Diving Wasp Prestwichia aquatica (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

Entomologia Generalis 2003, 26: 225-234.

Abstract. Diving wasps, Prestwichia aquatica Lubbock 1864, were videorecorded in a flat microaquarium under a dissecting microscope. Records were analyzed frame by frame. P. aquatica of 0.9 mm body size swims with the aid of legs with 5-7 mm/s, striking about 7 cycles per second. Walking on the dry ground or underwater, it advances 2.8-3.5 mm/s, stepping about 2.6 cycles per second. Leg co-ordination in swimming as well as in walking was of the alternating tripod type. Trajectories of the swimming power stroke in the middle and hind legs are spaced.

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Underwater walking in P. aquatica

(video)

Podogram of walking on dry ground in P. aquatica.
Black rectangles indicate swing phase. Ticks on the time scale every 10 frames, 0.4 s.

Podogram of underwater walking in P. aquatica.


Swimming in P. aquatica

(video)

Podograms of swimming in P. aquatica.

 

Trajectories of power stroke in the swimming P. aquatica. Leg postures were selected from video stills. They are numbered beginning from the start of the recovery stroke.

 

Collection of films:

Courtship dances in a fly, Lispe spp.


Stick friction in a lantern fly, Lycorma delicatula


Arolium of a hornet, Vespa crabro


Indirect closing of elytra in a cockchafer, Melolontha


Righting kinematics in beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera)


Leg coordination during turning on an extremely narrow substrate in a bug, Mesocerus marginatus (Heteroptera, Coreidae)


Swimming in the Diving Wasp Prestwichia aquatica (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)


Kinematics of elytra in beetles


Indirect closing of elytra in various beetles


Double rotation of the opening (closing) elytra in beetles (Coleoptera)


Actuation and performance of the elytron-to-body articulation in a diving beetle

     

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 2004-2009