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SUBMITTER: Hayashi Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6179226 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hayashi Yaoko Y Yoshimura Jin J Roff Derek A DA Kumita Tetsuro T Shimizu Akira A
PloS one 20181010 10
Vibrational communication is known in some subterranean insects. Except for their use in sexual signaling, vibration behavior has rarely been reported. We report here four distinct types of substrate-based vibration behaviors in the mole cricket, Gryllotalpa orientalis, which are not associated with sexual signaling because of the occurrence of these behaviors in nymphs: (1) scraping with the forelegs; (2) foreleg taps (tapping with the forelegs); (3) palpal taps (tapping with the maxillary palp ...[more]