part Part I General Aspects of Insect Sounds -- chapter 1 Insect Sounds and Communication — An Introduction -- Michael Claridge -- chapter 2 Sound and Techniques in Sound Analysis -- Elias Eliopoulos -- chapter 3 The Auditory–Vibratory Sensory System in Bushcrickets -- Wolfgang Rossler, Martin Jatho and Klaus Kalmring -- chapter Sense Organs Involved in the Vibratory Communication of Bugs -- chapter Use of Substrate Vibrations for Orientation: From Behaviour to Physiology -- chapter Size–FrequencyRelationships in Insect Vibratory Signals -- Reginald B. Cocroft and Paul De Luca -- chapter 7 Acoustic Signals and Temperature -- Allen F. Sanborn -- chapter 8 Insect Songs — The Evolution of Signal Complexity -- Winston J. Bailey -- chapter 9 Song Evolution and Speciation in Bushcrickets -- K.-G. Heller -- chapter 10 Acoustic Communication in Neuropterid Insects -- Charles S. Henry -- chapter Inheritance of Male Sound Characteristics in Drosophila Species -- Anneli Hoikkala -- chapter Vibratory Communication and Mate Searching Behaviour in Stoneflies -- Kenneth W. Stewart and John B. Sandberg -- chapter Communication by Substrate-Borne Vibrations in Cave Planthoppers -- Hannelore Hoch and Andreas Wessel -- chapter Partitioning of Acoustic Transmission Channels in Grasshopper Communities -- Maria Bukhvalova -- chapter 15 Insect Species and Their Songs -- Jerome Sueur -- chapter Is Migration Responsible for the Peculiar Geographical Distribution and Speciation Based on Acoustic Divergence of Two Cicadas in the Aegean Archipelago? -- chapter Acoustic Evolutionary Divergence in Cicadas: The Species of Cicada L. in Southern Europe -- chapter Acoustic Communication, Mating Behaviour and Hybridisation in Closely Related, Pseudogamic and Parthenogenetic Species of Planthoppers -- chapter Photoperiodism, Morphology and Acoustic Behaviour in the Leafhopper Genus, Euscelis -- Hildegard Strubing and Sakis Drosopoulos -- chapter Mutual Eavesdropping Through Vibrations in a Host–Parasitoid Interaction: From Plant Biomechanics to Behavioural Ecology -- part Part II Sounds in Various Taxa of Insects -- chapter Vibratory Signals Produced by Heteroptera — Pentatomorpha and Cimicomorpha -- Matija Gogala -- chapter Vibratory Communication in Triatominae (Heteroptera) -- Claudio R. Lazzari, Gabriel Manrique -- chapter Vibratory Communication in Treehoppers (Hemiptera:Membracidae) -- Reginald B. Cocroft and Gabriel D. McNett -- chapter Acoustic Characters in the Classification of Higher Taxa of Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) -- chapter Acoustic Signals, Diversity and Behaviour of Cicadas (Cicadidae, Hemiptera) -- Michel Boulard -- chapter Vibratory Communication and Mating Behaviour in the European Lantern Fly, Dictyophara europea (Dictyopharidae, Hemiptera) -- chapter 27 Vibratory Communication in Psylloidea (Hemiptera) -- chapter Mating Behaviour and Vibratory Signals inWhiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) -- chapter 29 Communication by Vibratory Signals in Diptera -- chapter 30 Stridulation in the Coleoptera — An Overview -- Andreas Wessel -- chapter Vibratory Communication in Dung Beetles (Scarabaeidae, Coleoptera) -- Julia Kasper and Petra Hirschberger -- chapter Vibratory and Airborne-Sound Signals in Bee Communication (Hymenoptera) -- Michael Hrncir, Friedrich G. Barth and Jurgen Tautz.