Acoustic behavior of Metaleptea adspersa (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:2002
Автори:Lorier, Presa
Journal:The Canadian Entomologist
Гучність:134
Проблема:01
Pagination:113 - 123
Date Published:Jan-02-2002
ISSN:0008-347X
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The sounds produced by Metaleptea adspersa (Blanchard 1843) were recorded in captivity with an analogical tape recorder. The signal was digitized in the laboratory and studied with a software. Three types of sound were described: copulation, rivalry, and crepitation. All three sounds were produced only by males. The frequency of the sounds occupied a broadband, from 3–4 to 16 kHz, although the main peak frequency for each type of song differed. We also studied the structures involved in sound production. Copulation and rivalry songs were produced by the rubbing of the subcostal, radial, medial, and cubital 1 veins of the hind wing against the subcostal and radial veins of the tegmen; the enlarged cubital area of the hind wing acted as a resonator. Crepitation sound was produced by the cubital area of hind wing when its expanded membrane became taut.

URL-адреса:http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0008347X00006088
DOI:10.4039/Ent134113-1
Short Title:Can Entomol
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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith