@article {47792, title = {Bioacoustic studies on some cricket species (Insecta:Orthoptera: Gryllidae) from Romania}, journal = {Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii {\quotedblbase}Al. I. Cuza{\textquotedblright} Iaşi, s. Biologie animală}, volume = {LIV}, year = {2008}, pages = {57-64}, chapter = {57}, abstract = {

There are 9 cricket species known from Romania belonging to the family Gryllidae. The ordinary stridulation of 7 species of those has been analyzed in this paper. The species belonging to the subfamily Gryllinae: Gryllus campestris, Acheta domestica, Melanogryllus desertus, Modicogryllus frontalis and Modicogryllus truncatus stridulate especially in the afternoon and in the evening, rarely during daytime, meanwhile the species Pteronemobius heydenii from the subfamily Nemobiinae stridulate only during daytime and especially by sunny weather, while the only species belonging to the subfamily Oecanthinae from our country fauna, Oecanthus pellucens, stridulate at night, very rarely during daytime (mostly in autumn). Details of the stridulatory vein and identification criteria for the studied cricket species are presented in this paper; also we have annalysed the spectrograms and the oscillograms for the ordinary stridulation of the 7 species. The species Modicogryllus truncatus, collected at Mărăşeşti, is a new report for Moldavia.

}, keywords = {bioacoustics, crickets, oscillogram, spectrogram}, author = {Ionut Stefan Iorgu and Gheorghe Mustata} } @article {47291, title = {Ligypterus najtae n. sp. from Mounts Tumuc-Humac in French Guiana (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Gryllidae, Eneopterinae)}, journal = {Zoosystema}, volume = {39}, year = {2017}, month = {Jan-03-2017}, pages = {125 - 136}, abstract = {

Ligypterus najtae n. sp., a new species of Neotropical Eneopterinae Saussure, 1874 cricket, is described from Mounts Tumuc-Humac in French Guiana. Description focusses on general morphology, male and female genitalia, and forewing venation. Bioacoustical analyses of the calling song reveal that this species uses high-frequency signals.

}, keywords = {crickets, French Guiana, high frequency, Lebinthini, new species}, issn = {1280-9551}, doi = {10.5252/z2017n1a14}, url = {http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.5252/z2017n1a14}, author = {Natallia M. Vicente and Tony Robillard} } @article {16466, title = {Acoustic preference functions and song variability in the Hawaiian cricket Laupala cerasina}, journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences}, volume = {267}, year = {2000}, month = {Oct-03-2001}, pages = {577 - 584}, abstract = {

Female preference functions for di\¡erent sexual traits can di\¡er signi\¢cantly, from {\textquoteleft}unimodal\’ to {\textquoteleft}open ended\’. Through the study of acoustic communication in anurans, several studies have reported an association between static (stereotyped) traits versus dynamic (variable) traits and preference function shape (unimodal versus open ended, respectively). Observing a similar pattern in a phylogenetically independent group would suggest that deterministic forces have caused a relationship between signal variability and preference function shape in acoustic signalling systems. We examined this phenomenon in crickets, another animal characterized by intersexual acoustic communication. We measured the within- male variability for three acoustic features of the male calling song in Laupala cerasina and the corresponding shape of the female preference function for each of these features. We o\¡er support for the generalization that open-ended preference functions correspond to relatively dynamic courtship traits and unimodal preference functions correspond to relatively static courtship traits. We discuss the evolutionary signi\¢cance of these \¢ndings in the context of the natural history of the Laupala species radiation.

}, keywords = {acoustic communication, crickets, mate recognition, preference, sexual selection, song}, issn = {0962-8452}, doi = {10.1098/rspb.2000.1040}, url = {http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/doi/10.1098/rspb.2000.1040}, author = {Shaw, K. L. and Herlihy, D. P.} }