Phonotaxis and Calling in Puerto Rican Mole Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae)1
- 1 July 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 76 (4) , 797-799
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/76.4.797
Abstract
Calling songs of mole crickets known as Scapteriscus vicinus Scudder in Puerto Rico differ significantly from songs of S. vicinus and S. acletus Rehn and Hebard in the southeastern United States. Female mole crickets showed a significant response to outdoor broadcasts of a synthesized Puerto Rican song but not to synthesized songs of the U.S. S. vicinus or S. acletus. Puerto Rican “S. vicinus” (changa) may respresent two species, since two types of calling songs occur. Unlike the two U.S. species, males do not construct specialized calling burrows, male calling activity is not restricted to twilight hours, and carrier frequencies of calling songs (4.5 and 3.5 kHz) are the highest reported for any mole crickets.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Introduction and Spread of Pest Mole Crickets: Scapteriscus vicinus and S. acletus Reexamined1Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1981
- Acoustical Burrows Constructed by Mole Crickets1, 2Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1979