• DOI:10.1080/002229399299752
Corpus ID: 85715642

Substrate-transmitted acoustic signals of the primitive cicada, Tettigarcta crinita Distant (Hemiptera Cicadoidea, Tettigarctidae)

@article{Claridge1999SubstratetransmittedAS,
  title={Substrate-transmitted acoustic signals of the primitive cicada, Tettigarcta crinita Distant (Hemiptera Cicadoidea, Tettigarctidae)},
  author={M. Claridge and J. Morgan and M. S. Moulds},
  journal={Journal of Natural History},
  year={1999},
  volume={33},
  pages={1831-1834}
}

M. Claridge, J. Morgan, M. S. Moulds

Published 1999

Biology

Journal of Natural History

Male cicadas are familiar for their unique loud airborne calls used in courtship and mate recognition. Extant Tettigarcta species in Australia are little-known relict survivors of a primitive Mesozoic cicada radiation which do not make loud calls and lack either the apparatus to produce them or the auditory organs to detect them. Field studies on live insects in New South Wales for the first time show that Tettigarcta produce low-intensity, substrate-transmitted acoustic signals in courtship… CONTINUE READING

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