Mutual Behavioral Adjustment in Vibrational Duetting

Mating Is a Give-and-Take of Influence and Communication Between the Sexes

“…18.2.2. Sometimes, when a male and a female are engaged in a duet and he is searching for her, he decreases the amplitude of his signals, but she increases the amplitude of hers (Rodríguez and Barbosa 2014). This would seem to increase the potential for detection by other males that may then approach the female and increase her prospects for choice.…”

“…Male attentiveness to female feedback may reinforce the patterns of assortative mating that are established by female mate choice if males are more likely to pursue females that they know find them attractive (cf. Rodríguez et al 2012;Rodríguez and Barbosa 2014). Alternatively, if males are able to tailor their courtship for different kinds of females, this may lead to patterns of mating that counter what would arise from female mate choice alone (cf.…”

“…The male signal consists of a whine (a near-pure tone that slightly drops in frequency from beginning to end) followed by a series of pulses. The female signal consists of a single component Females also produce more and longer signals when duetting with males that they find attractive, and males pick up on such variation in female behavior, being more likely to signal when they perceive longer female signals-i.e., those produced by females interacting with males they found attractive (Rodríguez et al 2004(Rodríguez et al , 2012Rodríguez and Barbosa 2014).…”

“…But we are still just beginning to realize how active females are during the reproductive process and also the extent to which males pick up on this for their own advantage. I think that a picture is emerging in which-in addition to selection on males to induce females to accept them and selection on females to respond selectively to males-there is also selection on females to influence male behavior and selection on males to attend to female responses and adjust their behavior accordingly (West-Eberhard 1983;Rodríguez and Barbosa 2014).…”

Mate searching inEnnya maculicornis(Membracidae: Polyglyptini) initiated by females: behavioural and acoustic descriptions

“…E-mail: cpintonavia@gmail.com (Liker et al, 2013;Fritzsche et al, 2016) and the occurrence of polyandry or polygyny (Clutton-Brock, 2007). visual, chemical, vibrational) emitted by males and females, eventually leading to the choice of a mating partner (Rodríguez & Barbosa, 2014). visual, chemical, vibrational) emitted by males and females, eventually leading to the choice of a mating partner (Rodríguez & Barbosa, 2014).…”