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Provedor de dados: | 76
País: | Brazil
Título: | Complex mating behavior in Adelosgryllus rubricephalus (Orthoptera, Phalangopsidae, Grylloidea)
Autores: | Zefa,Edison; Martins,Luciano de P.; Szinwelski,Neucir.
Data: | 2008-09-01
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Insecta; Phalangopsidae; Crickets; Courtship; Copulation.
Resumo: | We describe the mating behavior of Adelosgryllus rubricephalus Mesa &amp;amp; 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.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0073-47212008000300006
Editor: | Museu de Ciências Naturais
Relação: | 10.1590/S0073-47212008000300006
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Iheringia. Série Zoologia  v.98 n.3 2008
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess