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Interpopulation variation in sexual dichromatism in the Neotropical grasshopper Sphenarium purpurascens (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae)

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BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
卷 132, 期 4, 页码 900-911

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS

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background matching; crypsis; disruptive coloration; photographic analysis; sexual dichromatism; Sphenarium purpurascens

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  1. PAPIIT-UNAM [IN211617]
  2. Posgrado en Ciencias Biologicas of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) [330551]
  3. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) [330551]

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The study found that male and female grasshoppers exhibit different color strategies in different habitats, potentially influenced by local adaptation and differences in microhabitat conditions between genders.
Cryptic coloration is an adaptative defensive mechanism against predators. Colour patterns appear cryptic through general background coloration matching or disruptive coloration. Disruptive coloration might evolve in visually heterogeneous microhabitats, whereas background matching could be favoured in chromatically homogeneous microhabitats. In this study, we used digital photography to explore the potential use of disruptive coloration and background matching in males and females of the Neotropical grasshopper Sphenarium purpurascens in different habitats. We found chromatic differences in three habitats and sexual dichromatism that might be explained by local adaptation. Although females and males were sexually dichromatic, interpopulation differences were found in the magnitude of the sexual dichromatism. In a highly contrasting environment, both males and females seemed to follow a disruptive strategy, whereas in a heterogeneous environments males and females followed different colour cryptic strategies, in which males were more disruptive than females, and females exhibited high background matching with fewer disruptive elements. Selective predation in different microhabitats and differences in mobility between the sexes might explain the colour pattern divergence between females and males.

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