Variation and repeatability of ultrasonic sexual advertisement signals inAchroia grisella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
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Abstract
MaleAchroia grisella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) produce ultrasonic advertisement signals for pair formation. The signals are generated by wing-fanning and consist of pairs of approximately 100-µs pulses of 70- to 130-kHz sound. In a previous study, playback experiments showed that femaleA. grisella preferred signals whose pulses were louder, longer, and delivered at a higher rate and included longer silent (asynchrony) intervals within pairs. To understand the variation and repeatability of these signal characters, acoustic signals of 18A. grisella males were recorded twice daily on the first 4 days and the seventh day after adult eclosion. ANOVA and MANOVA revealed significant among-individual and among-age variation for all signal characters. Peak amplitude, average amplitude, rate, and pulse length peaked 2–3 days after eclosion and then decreased. Asynchrony interval, however, continued to increase as males aged. Repeatabilities of peak amplitude, average amplitude, rate, and asynchrony interval were all relatively high (>0.5).
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Achroia grisella repeatability sexual advertisement signal signal variationPreview
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