BioAcoustica is a free, open repository of wildlife sound recordings from the Natural History Museum, London.
Taxonomic index of the BioAcoustica collection
Acoustic and biological measurements in the BioAcoustica collection
Recording annotations from ann-o-mate
The specimens that recordings are of, from the collections
Gwynne, Darryl T. (1982). Mate selection by female katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Conocephalus nigropleurum). Animal Behaviour, 30(3): 734 - 738.
Female katydids receive a large spermatophore at mating which they subsequently eat. Available evidence indicates that spermatophore nutrients are important to female reproduction. Heavier males produce larger spermatophores. When given the choice between two singing males of different weights, females always mated with the larger individual.
| Conocephalus (Conocephalus) nigropleurum |
Where the specimens that recordings are of were collected, not where the sound was recorded