BEHAVIORAL-RESPONSE OF GRAMINELLA-NIGRIFRONS (HOMOPTERA, CICADELLIDAE) TO EXPERIMENTALLY MANIPULATED VIBRATIONAL SIGNALS

被引：26

作者：

HUNT, RE

FOX, JP

HAYNES, KF

机构：

[1] Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 40546, Kentucky

[2] Audiology and Speech Pathology Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Lexington, 40511, Kentucky

来源：

JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR | 1992年 / 5卷 / 01期

关键词：

LEAFHOPPER; CICADELLIDAE; GRAMINELLA-NIGRIFRONS; COMMUNICATION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; MATING BEHAVIOR;

D O I：

10.1007/BF01049154

中图分类号：

Q96 [昆虫学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Mate recognition for the leafhopper Graminella nigrifrons (Forbes) occurs when a male spontaneously emits a multisectional vibrational calling song to which females respond by emitting simple pulses. Significant differences were found among males in the duration, number of chirps, and chirp rate within sections of the song and the total song. Repeatability (proportion of total variation due to differences among males) of call features ranged from very low (0.04 for total chirps in song) to high (0.67 for section 3 chirp rate). However, song modification and playback experiments revealed that the variation in the measured song features was not important in determining whether a female will respond. Rather, female response depended only on the presence of two of the three types of pulses which comprise a chirp. These "essential" pulses were found within chirps of all call sections that contain chirps. Manipulation of chirp rates from 0.58 to 2.70 times the normal rate did not affect female response, nor did changing the period of silence between the "essential" pulse types from 0.25 to 1.75 times the normal period. These results suggest that components of the male calling song function in mate recognition but are not used by females to discriminate among conspecific males.

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