Tettigonia cantans

Behaviour: 

Females of the katydid T. cantans appear to get the best of both proximity and male body size when choosing calls. They preferentially orient to songs with high-frequency harmonics indicative of nearby males (69), but when the song are broadcast from a similar distance, they prefer calls with lower carrier frequencies produced by the larger tegminal mirror frames of relatively large males (68; see also 101). [1]

Références

  1. Brown WD. MATE CHOICE IN TREE CRICKETS AND THEIR KIN. 1999. Available at: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.ento.44.1.371.
Taxonomic name: 
Tettigonia cantans (Classification)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith