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Definition of Stridulations

Stridulation
Stridulation Strid`u*la"tion, n. The act of stridulating. Specifically: (Zo["o]l.) (a) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. (b) The noise itself. Note: The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings. Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong nervures on the fore wings. The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings.

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- stridulations Pachycondyla apicalis Stridulations from a Pachycondyla apicalis worker. Pachycondyla verenae Stridulations from a Pachycondyla verenae worker...
- pedipalp segments. Stridulations in males of many spider species play a role in courtship, and although H. pluchei female stridulations also play a role...
- over great distances. Other species communicate with sounds: crickets stridulate, or rub their wings together, to attract a mate and repel other males...
- function as tactile communication, or communication through touch, as they stridulate, or vibrate a substrate like leaves and stems. Most moths lack bright...
- pallidula stridulations Soldier Stridulations from a Pheidole pallidula soldier. Worker Stridulations from a Pheidole pallidula worker. Queen Stridulations from...
- long-whiskered catfish, drumming sounds are used as a threatening signal and stridulations are used as a defense signal. Kaatz investigated 83 species from 14...
- intensity of the light produced. Before mating, males and females may stridulate, or vibrate the objects they are on. In the Meloidae, the male climbs...
- forewings (stridulation). These sounds are produced mainly by males to attract females, though in some species the females also stridulate. Gr****hoppers...
- Megaloblatta, like many other insects, use stridulation in order to steer their predators away. The stridulating insects are less likely to be pre**** upon...
- males engage in a seismic component of their courtship display, either stridulation, or drumming their forelegs on the ground, but some also dependent on...