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First record of male drumming call of the genus Capnioneura Ris, 1905 (Plecoptera, Capniidae)
Author(s) -
TIERNO DE FIGUEROA J. Manuel,
LUZÓNORTEGA Julio M.,
LÓPEZRODRÍGUEZ Manuel J.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
entomological science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.536
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1479-8298
pISSN - 1343-8786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2009.00346.x
Subject(s) - biology , beat (acoustics) , duration (music) , genus , call duration , zoology , anatomy , acoustics , physics , computer science , telecommunications
The male call of Capnioneura mitis , produced by drumming, is recorded and analyzed for the first time. It also represents the first known signal for the genus. It consists of a highly variable number of beats (2–32) with inter‐beat duration approximately constant along the call, but inter‐beat duration is temperature dependent. Thus, at 13°C the mean inter‐beat duration is 1.397 s (SD = 0.050) while at 21°C it is 1.139 s (SD = 0.093). The call pattern exhibited by this species, as those of the majority of previously studied Capniidae species, can be catalogued as an ancestral or near‐ancestral percussive monophasic signal.