Acoustic signals in katydids (Orthoptera, Tettigonidae). Communication I

Korsunovskaya, O. S.

doi:10.1134/s0013873808090029

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“…Females typically do not produce acoustic signals; they perform phonotaxis, moving towards the source of the call (Robinson and Hall, 2002). This paradigm is modified in some bushcricket genera, where females produce acoustic signals, either spontaneously as in the case of some ephippigerine bushcrickets (Platystolus obvius: Korsunovskaya, 2008) or in response to the male call, resulting in acoustic duets. A duet can be defined as a dialogue between two signalers (Bailey and Hammond, 2004), with a stereotyped temporal relationship between the signal from one individual and the reply from the other individual (Bailey, 2003).…”

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“…A duet can be defined as a dialogue between two signalers (Bailey and Hammond, 2004), with a stereotyped temporal relationship between the signal from one individual and the reply from the other individual (Bailey, 2003). Duets are common among some ephippigerine bushcrickets such as Steropleurus stali, Steropleurus nobrei, Platystolus obvius (Hartley et al, 1974;Hartley, 1993), Ephippiger ephippiger (Ritchie, 1991) and Deracantha onos (Korsunovskaya, 2008); zaprochiline bushcrickets such as Meconoma thalassina (Robinson, 1990); and phaneropterine bushcrickets such as Leptophyes punctissima (Robinson et al, 1986), Elephantodeta nobilis (Bailey and Field, 2000), Scudderia curvicauda (Spooner, 1968), Phaneroptera nana (Tauber et al, 2001), Metaplastes spp., Euconocercus iris, Amblycorypha uhleri (Korsunovskaya, 2008), Barbitistes spp., (Stumpner and Meyer, 2001), Caedicia spp. (Bailey and Hammond, 2004), Andreiniimon nuptialis, Ancistrura nigrovittata, Isophya lemone and several Poecilimon species (Heller and von Helversen, 1986).…”

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A novel acoustic-vibratory multimodal duet

Rajaraman

Godthi

Pratap

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Biology

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The communication strategy of most crickets and bushcrickets typically consists of males broadcasting loud acoustic calling songs, while females perform phonotaxis, moving towards the source of the call. Males of the pseudophylline bushcricket species Onomarchus uninotatus produce an unusually low-pitched call, and we found that the immediate and most robust response of females to the male acoustic call was a bodily vibration, or tremulation, following each syllable of the call. We hypothesized that these bodily oscillations might send out a vibrational signal along the substrate on which the female stands, which males could use to localize her position. We quantified these vibrational signals using a laser vibrometer and found a clear phase relationship of alternation between the chirps of the male acoustic call and the female vibrational response. This system therefore constitutes a novel multimodal duet with a reliable temporal structure. We also found that males could localize the source of vibration but only if both the acoustic and vibratory components of the duet were played back. This unique multimodal duetting system may have evolved in response to higher levels of bat predation on searching bushcricket females than calling males, shifting part of the risk associated with partner localization onto the male. This is the first known example of bushcricket female tremulation in response to a long-range male acoustic signal and the first known example of a multimodal duet among animals.

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A novel acoustic-vibratory multimodal duet

Rajaraman

Godthi

Pratap

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Biology

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“…Females of Phonochorion species and P. tschorochensis have overlapping tegmina and are capable of responding acoustically to males whereas those of the other species in the Poecilimon heroicus-group have highly reduced nonoverlapping tegmina and do not respond acoustically to males . Overlapping female tegmina and acoustic response of females to males also occurs in the genus Polysarcus (Korsunovskaya, 2008). In addition, Phonochorion spp.…”

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“…Acoustic signals of Phonochorion spp. and P. zacharovi are very complicated in their temporal structure (Korsunovskaya, 2008) and both groups produce a continuous song (Heller, 1990;Heller et al, 2006), whereas the temporal structure of the acoustic signals of the Poecilimon heroicus-group is less complicated (Korsunovskaya, 2008) and consist of isolated pairs of syllables . Due to the complexity of their song patterns Phonochorion spp.…”

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“…and Poecilimon brunneri species-groups produce the most complicated acoustic signals in terms of the temporal structure of their songs (Korsunovskaya, 2008). The songs of these bush-crickets usually contain several distinct components to which the females respond only to one (Korsunovskaya, 2008). Oscillograms of the songs of two of the three species (Ph.…”

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Re-evaluation of the genus Phonochorion (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae)

Sevgl¹,

Calar²,

Salam³

2010

Eur. J. Entomol.

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Abstract. Phonochorion Uvarov (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) is a little known genus consisting of three species: Ph. satunini, Ph. artvinensis and Ph. uvarovi. The objective of this study is to conduct a thorough distributional, taxonomic and systematic revision of the genus Phonochorion using both bioacustic and external morphological characters. Field surveys indicate that the genus is distributed from the Trabzon region of Turkey to the Khulo province of Georgia however the exact limit of the eastern distribution of the genus remains unknown. Phonochorion species occur only on the northern slopes of the East Black Sea and Lesser Caucasus Mountains. The Coruh Valley, which seprates the East Black Sea and Lesser Caucasus Mountain ranges, seems to be an effective physical and climatic barrier and determines the distribution of these species. Ph. uvarovi can clearly be distinguished from Ph. satunini and Ph. artvinensis by the calling songs of males and external morphological characters. Ph. artvinensis and Ph. satunini differ in several taxonomic characters but the males have virtually identical calling songs. From a character evolution perspective, although geographically more distant, Ph. satunini is more closely related to Ph. uvarovi than Ph. artvinensis. Morphological similarities in several characters indicate Phonochorion to be most closely related to Polysarcus zacharovi and the Poecilimon heroicus-group. Within the genus Phonochorion, song structure and morphological characters clearly indicate Ph. uvarovi to be the basal taxon.

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