02556nas a2200205   4500008004100000245009700041210007100138520168500209653001801894653002401912653002301936653001201959653001801971653001701989100002802006700002402034700002902058700002502087856023802112       2019                        eng d00aConsistency of females' stridulatory behaviour during inter‐sexual interactions in spiders0 aConsistency of females stridulatory behaviour during inter‐sexua3 a<p>In a sexual context, it is expected that females base their choice of mate on the be‐ haviours that males perform during courtship, as such behaviours are associated with the male&#39;s mate quality. Stridulation is one form of female communication in arthropods, for example, spiders. In spiders, stridulation during sexual interactions is relatively common in some groups but mainly restricted to males. In the pholcid spider Holocnemus pluchei (Pholcidae), both sexes have stridulatory organs. The aims of the present work were to: (a) determine possible differences in the frequency of occurrence of stridulation between females during inter‐sexual interactions, (b) es‐ tablish female consistency in stridulation along repeated interactions and (c) analyse if female stridulation is associated with certain male behaviours during pre‐copula‐ tory courtship and with male size. Female H. pluchei showed highly repeatable dif‐ ferences in their frequency of stridulation across consecutive encounters with males (ICC = 0.64). However, only a modest level of repeatability was detected in total time females spent stridulating across trials (ICC = 0.19). Females&rsquo; mean stridulatory be‐ haviour did not change across ten consecutive trials spread across 20 days, and their behaviour was apparently unaffected by male persistence of copulatory attempted and/or size. These results imply that the frequency of female stridulatory behaviour is a trait that is highly characteristic of each individual. Finally, our work opens the door to determine whether behavioural consistency manifests in other ecological contexts and their functional implications.</p>
10acommunication10acopulatory attempts10aHolocnemus pluchei10apholcid10arepeatability10astridulation1 aCalbacho‐Rosa, Lucía1 aCargnelutti, Franco1 aCórdoba‐Aguilar, Alex1 aPeretti, Alfredo, V.  uhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eth.12880https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/eth.12880https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/eth.12880https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/eth.12880