Song power, spectral distribution and female phonotaxis in the bushcricket Requena verticalis (Tettigoniidae: Orthoptera): active female choice or passive attraction

@article{Bailey1990SongPS,
  title={Song power, spectral distribution and female phonotaxis in the bushcricket Requena verticalis (Tettigoniidae: Orthoptera): active female choice or passive attraction},
  author={Winston J. Bailey and Robert J. Cunningham and L. Antoine Lebel},
  journal={Animal Behaviour},
  year={1990},
  volume={40},
  pages={33-42}
}
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Song discrimination by male cicadas Cicada barbara lusitanica (Homoptera, Cicadidae).
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Cicada barbara lusitanica males presented a stereotyped singing response behaviour when exposed to a playback of the conspecific song, and discriminated frequencies within 3-15 kHz, clearly preferring 6 and 9 kHz; both these frequencies matched the main spectral peaks of the song.
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The selective responses exhibited by Ph. nana females contradict some previous expectations that females in duet signalling systems should be indiscriminate.
Choice of singing sites by male bushcrickets (Tettigonia viridissima) in relation to signal propagation
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The spatial dispersion of singing male bushcrickets (Tettigonia viridissima) in a marshland habitat was found to be significantly clumped and the spacing strategy adopted by males reflects a compromise between maximizing the range over which their songs can be detected and accurately localized by females and minimizing interference from competing males.
Sensory basis for sound intensity discrimination in the bushcricket Requena verticalis (Tettigoniidae, Orthoptera)
Abstract The ability of the female bushcricket, Requena verticalis, to discriminate between two conspecific sound signals that differed in sound pressure level (SPL) was tested in a two-choice…
Sound‐pressure Levels and Song Preferences in Female Red‐winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) (Aves, Emberizidae)
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Female red-winged blackbirds responded preferentially to a conspecific song relative to a heterospecific imitation, even when the imitation was presented at an SPL 13 dB higher than that of the conspecial song.
Do large bushcrickets have more sensitive ears? Natural variation in hearing thresholds within populations of the bushcricket Requena verticalis (Listroscelidinae: Tettigoniidae)
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Hearing thresholds of both sexes of the bushcricket, Requena verticalis Walker, were measured at the male call’s carrier frequency and were found to correlate with spiracle dimension, which correlates with the size of the insect as measured by pronotum length.
Selective phonotaxis of female crickets under natural outdoor conditions
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Phonotaxis experiments with female field crickets are performed outdoors, using two-choice decisions based on differences in carrier frequency, sound pressure level, and chirp rate to make predictions about patterns of sexual selection.
Acoustic satellite behaviour in the Australian bushcricket Elephantodeta nobilis (Phaneropterinae, Tettigoniidae, Orthoptera)
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Although females preferred the alpha male they were nevertheless attracted to the satellite calls regardless of the latter's relative intensity, and the possible role of satellite calling as a novel conditional strategy is discussed.
Multivariate sexual selection on male song structure in wild populations of sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans (Orthoptera: Haglidae)
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A complex pattern of multivariate nonlinear selection characterized primarily by strong stabilizing and disruptive selection on male song traits is revealed, suggesting that the female auditory system is tightly tuned to the species-specific call frequency.
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