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| Provedor de dados: |
Iheringia, Sér. Zool.
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Complex mating behavior in Adelosgryllus rubricephalus (Orthoptera, Phalangopsidae, Grylloidea)
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| Autores: |
Zefa,Edison
Martins,Luciano de P.
Szinwelski,Neucir
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| Data: |
2008-09-01
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| Ano: |
2008
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| Palavras-chave: |
Insecta
Phalangopsidae
Crickets
Courtship
Copulation
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| Resumo: |
We describe the mating behavior of Adelosgryllus rubricephalus Mesa & Zefa, 2004. In trials carried out in laboratory we verified the following mating sequence: (1) sexual recognition by antennation; (2) courtship with male turning his abdomen towards the female, performing mediolateral antennae vibration, jerking its body antero-posteriorly and stridulating intermittently, while receptive female drums on the male's abdomen tip, cerci and hind-tibia with her palpi or foretarsi; the male then stops and stays motionless for some seconds, extrudes the spermatophore and both restart the behavioral sequence described above; (3) copulation: male underneath female; with his tegmina inclined forward, and joins his genitalia to the female's to promote sperm transference ; the female steps off the male, occurring a brief end-to-end position; (4) postcopulation: without guarding behavior; male retains the spermatophore and eats it. We quantified elapsed time of each behavioral sequence and discussed its implications in the observed mating behavior.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0073-47212008000300006
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| Editor: |
Museu de Ciências Naturais
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S0073-47212008000300006
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Iheringia. Série Zoologia v.98 n.3 2008
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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