stridulate

In terrestrial isopod species, Armadillo officinalis stridulates by rubbing some epimera and pereiopods together (Caruso and Costa, 1976).

2005) which stridulate at a peak frequency of approximately 5 kHz with approximate minimum and maximum frequencies of 2 and 14 kHz.

bonettii was observed to stridulate more loudly than R.

Ants stridulate with the hindmost body section, the gaster, explains systematist Philip Ward at the University of California, Davis.

For instance, a flood during the rainy season allows Hoyt to describe sweepstakes dispersal (as a log housing a colony of little fire ants rafts down the river into the Caribbean Sea and thence to the island of Hispaniola); communication by stridulation is illustrated by an episode where several ants where are stuck in the mud during the flood stridulate so they can be found and exhumed by their nest mates.

COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Some fish stridulate, moving spines and fins in sockets to creak or to sound, as Lobel puts it, "like a rasping file." Others make the hydro-dynamic sounds Lobel first looked for, like those made by the rapid fin movement of the striped parrotfish on its way to breed.

With a total of 26,000 described Orthoptera species of which a (conservatively!) estimated 10,000 are able to stridulate, we have web access to song recordings for about 1000 species, i.e.

"There are lots of insects that stridulate," Berenbaum says.

chopardi stridulate. As far as we know, no other record of stridulation within that particular genus exists.