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Neural Correlates of Orthopteran and Cicada Phonotaxis

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Neuroethology and Behavioral Physiology

Abstract

Acoustic communication as evolved in insects, amphibians, birds and mammals mainly serves to bring the sexes together for successful reproduction. Sound signals, most commonly emitted by one sex, play a major role in this communication process. But one should not neglect vibrational, visual and chemical signals associated with communicative behavior in the natural environment. Diurnally active cicadas — for example, the periodical cicadas (Magicicadidae) — are guided in their daily flights by visually recognized landmarks (bushes, trees), and they choose those landing sites at which conspecific males are singing (Alexander and Moore 1962, Huber 1983a). In the Australian bladder cicada, Cystosoma saundersii (Westwood) which is active at dusk, flight phonotaxis in the female is mainly guided by acoustical cues (Doolan 1982). Visual and acoustical signals emitted by the sexual partner establish pair formation in many acridid grasshoppers (Jacobs 1953, Riede et al. 1979, Riede 1982).

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Huber, F. (1983). Neural Correlates of Orthopteran and Cicada Phonotaxis. In: Huber, F., Markl, H. (eds) Neuroethology and Behavioral Physiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69271-0_9

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