Mating advantage of short-winged over long-winged adult males in the cricket Velarifictorus ornatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

Zhao, Lvquan; Chai, Huai-Lin; Wu, Hongjun; Zhu, Dao‐Hong

doi:10.14411/eje.2017.032

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“…In the cricket Macroanaxipha macilenta, a rare narrowforewing male morph is almost silent, allowing energy saved from singing to be put into producing a second spermatophore for each female; despite its lack of song, its mating success is equal to the singing wide-forewing morph that only produces one spermatophore per female (Elias-Quevedo and Cueva del Castillo, 2020). In several other species such as the crickets Velarifictorus ornatus (Zhao et al, 2017) and Gryllus firmus (Mitra et al, 2011), flying long-winged and flightless short-winged morphs are found in both males and females. Long-winged males can disperse from unfavourable environments but must allocate more resources to maintaining flight muscles, leaving less energy to produce attractive song and spermatophores.…”

Section: Alternative Mating Tacticsmentioning

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Acoustic signalling in Orthoptera

Hall

Robinson

2021

Advances in Insect Physiology

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Acoustic communication is one of the most well-known behavioural traits of the Orthoptera. Orthopteran insects and the sounds they produce are both extremely diverse, and speciesspecific sounds are an extremely important tool in orthopteran taxonomy and systematics. For most species, acoustic signalling is the most important means of communication. It plays a vital role in mating, mate choice, intrasexual competition, interspecific interactions with predators and parasitoids, and the divergence of populations and species. The enormous diversity of the orthopterans has provided researchers with a wealth of model systems for studying anatomy, physiology, neurobiology, bioacoustics, communication, life-history traits, behaviour, evolutionary ecology, and speciation, all areas in which acoustic communication is important. We first reviewed orthopteran sound signalling nearly 20 years ago (Robinson and Hall, 2002), since when there has been an enormous amount of further work. This second review will look mainly at research published since that first review.

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Section: Alternative Mating Tacticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acoustic signalling in Orthoptera

Hall

Robinson

2021

Advances in Insect Physiology

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Behavioral patterns that determine the mating rates in a wing dimorphic riffle bug, Microvelia horvathi Lundblad, 1933 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae)

Matsushima

Yokoi

2022

J Ethol

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Tendency to mate with short-winged partner of the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens (Hemiptera: Delphacidae)

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Bu,

Liu

2024

Journal of Economic Entomology

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Wing dimorphism is a distinguishing characteristic of brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) populations, wherein adults exhibit 2 distinct morphs: long-winged and short-winged. The presence of long-winged individuals often heralds the onset of migration, while short-winged morphs signify high reproduction and can be associated with population outbreaks. This phenomenon underscores the adaptability of these insects in response to environmental cues and their impact on agricultural ecosystems. Wing morphs of N. lugens are controlled by genetical and environmental factors. Mate choice between long and short-winged adults affects wing morphs of offspring. In this study, we found that the wild population had no persistent preference for choosing long-winged or short-winged adults to mate. But in 2 multigenerational selected lineages for long and short-winged morphs, the short-winged males preferred to short-winged females to mate and the long-winged males had no preference. In the nearly pure-bred lineages of long-winged and short-winged morphs, both wing morphs of females preferred for short-winged males. Purification of wing morph lineages enhanced mating preference for short-winged partners. When the wing developmental gene InR1 or InR2 was interfered by RNAi, the pure-bred lineage of long-winged morph mainly produced short-winged adults and the short-winged morphs produced long-winged adults, and these adults exhibited preference to mate with short-winged partners. The tendency to mate with short-winged morphs leads to more short-winged offspring which easily causes the rapid growth of populations.

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Mating advantage of short-winged over long-winged adult males in the cricket Velarifictorus ornatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Acoustic signalling in Orthoptera

Acoustic signalling in Orthoptera

Behavioral patterns that determine the mating rates in a wing dimorphic riffle bug, Microvelia horvathi Lundblad, 1933 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae)

Tendency to mate with short-winged partner of the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens (Hemiptera: Delphacidae)

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