Stridulation in the wild kissing bug <i>Mepraia spinolai</i>: description of the stridulatory organ and vibratory disturbance signal

Sound is an important medium of communication among insects. Some longhorn beetles produce sounds during their daily activities, and these sounds play a role in courtship, predation, and defense. However, whether there are differences in the sounds emitted by longhorn beetles and how to distinguish and recognize these sounds have not been investigated in detail. Here, the sounds of Glenea cantor (Fabricius), Moechotypa diphysis (Pascoe), and Psacothea hilaris (Pascoe) were collected, and the differences in their stridulatory organs were observed and compared using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The characteristics of their sounds were analyzed using MATLAB. Linear prediction cepstral coefficients (LPCC) and Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) were used to extract the sound features, and the support vector machine (SVM) model was used to identify the sounds of three species. The results showed that the stridulatory organs of three species of longhorn beetles differed in morphology and time domain, and the combination of MFCC and SVM had a better recognition ability. The difference in the stridulatory organs of longhorn beetles may be an important reason for the differences in the sounds they produce, and we discussed the application of insect sounds in insect classification.

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Chapter 27: Stridulatory signals in triatomine communication and defence

Manrique

Schilman

2022

Sensory Ecology of Disease Vectors

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Stridulation in the wild kissing bug Mepraia spinolai: description of the stridulatory organ and vibratory disturbance signal

Abstract: Supplemental materialSupplementary Table 1S. Spectral and temporal variables measured for the stridulatory disturbance signal of winged (brachypterous and macropterous) males of M. spinolai

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Stridulatory Organs and Sound Recognition of Three Species of Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Chapter 27: Stridulatory signals in triatomine communication and defence

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