Call structure variability and field survival among bushcrickets exposed to phonotactic parasitoids

Ethology

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 409-423

  Allen, Geoff R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CRICKET; HOST LOCATION; PARASITISM; SURVIVAL;

DIPTERA; HOMOTRIXA ALLENI; ORTHOPTERA; SCIARASAGA QUADRATA; TACHINIDAE; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 0034113398     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2000.00550.x     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Allen, G. R. 1995a: The biology of the phonotactic parasitoid, Homotrixa sp. (Diptera, Tachinidae), and its impact on the survival of male Sciarasaga quadrata (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) in the field. Ecol. Entomol. 20, 103-110.
2. Allen, G. R. 1995b: The calling behaviour and spatial distribution of male bushcrickets (Sciarasaga quadrata) and their relationship to parasitism by acoustically orienting tachinid flies. Ecol. Entomol. 20, 303-310.
3. Allen, G. R. 1998: Diel calling activity and field survival of the bushcricket Sciarasaga quadrata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae): a role for sound locating parasitic flies? Ethology 104, 645-660.
4. Allen, G. R., Kamien, D., Berry, O., Byrne, P. & Hunt, J. 1999 Larviposition, host cues and planidial behavior in the sound locating fly Homotrixa alleni (Diptera: Tachinidae). J. Insect. Behav. 12, 67-79.
5. Arnold, S. J. & Wade, M. J. 1984a: On the measurement of natural and sexual selection: theory. Evolution 38, 709-719.
6. Arnold, S. J. & Wade, M. J. 1984b: On the measurement of natural and sexual selection: applications. Evolution 38, 720-734.
7. Bailey, W. J., 1991: Acoustic Behaviour of Insects. An Evolutionary Perspective. Chapman & Hall, London.
8. Bailey, W. J., Withers, P. C., Endersby, M. & Gaull, K. 1993: The energetic costs of calling in the bushcricket Requena verticalis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Listroscelidinae). J. Exp. Biol. 178, 21-37.
9. Barraclough, D. A. & Allen, G. R. 1996: Two new species of Homotrixa Villeneuve (Diptera: Tachinidae) from southwestern Australia, with data on biology and ecology. Aust. J. Entomol. 35, 135-145.
10. Bennet-Clark, H. C. 1989: Songs and the physics of sound production. In: Cricket Behavior and Neurobiology (Huber, F., Moore, T. E. & Loher, W., eds). Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, pp. 227-261.
11. Boake, C. R. B. 1989: Repeatability: its role in evolutionary studies of mating behavior. Evol. Ecol. 3, 173-182.
12. Bureau of Meteorology 1988: Climatic Averages Australia. Australian Government Publ. Service, Canberra.
13. Butlin, R. K., Hewitt, G. M. & Webb, S. F. 1985: Sexual selection for intermediate optimum in Chorthippus brunneus (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Anim. Behav. 33, 1281-1292.
14. Ciceran, M., Murray, A.-M. & Rowell, G. 1994: Natural variation in the temporal patterning of calling song structure in the field cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus: effects of temperature, age, mass, time of day, and nearest neighbour. Can. J. Zool. 72, 38-42.
15. Gerhardt, H. C. 1982: Sound pattern recognition in some North American treefrogs (Anura: Hylidae): implications for mate choice. Am. Zool. 22, 581-595.
16. Gerhardt, H. C. 1991: Female mate choice in treefrogs: static and dynamic acoustic criteria. Anim. Behav. 42, 615-635.
17. Gerhardt, H. C., Dyson, M. L. & Tanner, S. D. 1996: Dynamic properties of the advertisement calls of gray tree frogs - patterns of variability and female choice. Behav. Ecol. 7, 7-18.
18. Hartley, J. C. & Stephen, R. O. 1989: Temporal changes in the quality of the song of a bush cricket. J. Exp. Biol. 147, 189-202.
19. Hedrick, A. V. 1986: Female preferences for male calling bout duration. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 19, 73-77.
20. Heller, K.-G. 1987: Warm-up and stridulation in the bushcricket Hexacentrus unicolor Serville (Orthoptera, Conocephalidae, Listroscelinae). J. Exp. Biol. 126, 97-109.
21. Hunt, J. & Allen, G. R. 1998: Fluctuating asymmetry, call structure and the risk of attack from phonotactic parasitoids in the bushcricket Sciarasaga quadrata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Oecologia 116, 356-364.
22. Lakes-Harlan, R., Stumpner, A. & Allen, G. R. 1995: Functional adaptations of the auditory system of two parasitoid fly species, Therobia leonidei and Homotrixa spec. In: Nervous Systems and Behaviour 1995 (Burrows, M., Matheson, T., Newland, P. L. & Schuppe, H., eds). Thieme-Verlag, New York, p. 358.
23. Lande, R. & Arnold, S. J. 1983: The measurement of selection on correlated characters. Evolution 37, 1210-1226.
24. Latimer, W. 1981: The acoustic behaviour of the bushcricket Platycleis albopunctata (Goeze) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Behaviour 76, 182-206.
25. Latimer, W. & Schatral, A. 1986: Information cues used in male competition by Tettigonia cantans (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Anim. Behav. 34, 162-168.
26. Latimer, W. & Sippel, M. 1987: Acoustic cues for female choice and male competition in Tettigonia cantans. Anim. Behav. 35, 887-900.
27. Lehmann, G. U. C. & Heller, K.-G. 1998: Bushcricket song structure and predation by the acoustically orienting parasitoid fly Therobia leonidei (Diptera: Tachinidae: Ormiini). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 43, 239-245.
28. Lessells, C. M. & Boag, P. T. 1987: Unrepeatable repeatabilities: a common mistake. The Auk 104, 116-121.
29. Møller, A. P. 1997: Developmental stabiltiy and fitness: a review. Am. Nat. 149, 916-932.
30. Parker, G. A. 1983: Mate quality and mating decisions. In: Mate Choice (Bateson, P., ed.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, pp. 141-166.
31. Rentz, D. C. F. 1993: Tettigoniidae of Australia, 2. The Austrosaginae, Zaprochilinae and Phasmodinae. CSIRO, Melbourne.
32. Ritchie, M. G. 1992: Variation in male song and female preference within a population of Ephippiger ephippiger (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Anim. Behav. 43, 845-855.
33. Ritchie, M. G., Couzin, I. D. & Snedden, W. A. 1995: What's in a song? Female bushcrickets discriminate against the song of older males. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 262, 21-27.
34. Robert, D., Amoroso, J. & Hoy, R. R. 1992: The evolutionary convergence of hearing in a parasitoid fly and its cricket host. Science 258, 1135-1137.
35. Rotenberry, J. T., Zuk, M., Simmons, L. W. & Hayes, C. 1996: Phonotactic parasitoids and cricket song structure: an evaluation of alternative hypotheses. Evol. Ecol. 10, 233-243.
36. Ryan, M. J. 1990: Sexual selection, sensory systems, and sensory exploitation. Oxford Surveys Evol. Biol. 7, 157-195.
37. Schatral, A. 1990: Body size, song frequency and mating success of male bushcrickets Requena verticalis (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Listroscelidinae) in the field. Anim. Behav. 40, 982-984.
38. Schatral, A. & Bailey, W. J. 1991a: Song variability and the response to conspecific song and to song models of different frequency contents in males of the bushcricket Requena verticalis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Behaviour 116, 163-179.
39. Schatral, A. & Bailey, W. J. 1991b: Decisions during phonotaxis in the bushcricket Requena verticalis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae): do females change direction to alternative male calls? Ethology 88, 320-330.
40. Simmons, L. W. 1988: The calling song of the field cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus (De Geer): constraints on transmission and its role in intermale competition and female choice. Anim. Behav. 36, 380-394.
41. Simmons, L. W. & Zuk, M. 1992: Variability in call structure and pairing success of male field crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus: the effects of age, size and parasite load. Anim. Behav. 44, 1145-1152.
42. Souroukis, K., Cade, W. H. & Rowell, G. 1992: Factors that possibly influence variation in the calling song of field crickets: temperature, time, and male size, age, and wing morphology. Can. J. Zool. 70, 950-955.
43. Tuckerman, J. F., Gwynne, D. T. & Morris, G. K. 1993: Reliable acoustic cues for female mate preference in a katydid (Scudderia curvicauda, Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Behav. Ecol. 4, 106-113.
44. Wagner, W. E. 1996: Convergent song preferences between female field crickets and acoustically orienting parasitoid flies. Behav. Ecol. 7, 279-285.
45. Walker, T. J. 1993: Phonotaxis in female Ormia ochracea (Diptera: Tachinidae), a parasitoid of field crickets. J. Insect. Behav. 6, 389-410.
46. Webb, K. L. & Roff, D. A. 1992: The quantitative genetics of sound production in Gryllus firmus. Anim. Behav. 44, 823-832.
47. Zar, J. H. 1984: Biostatistical Analysis, 2nd edn. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
48. Zuk, M., Simmons, L. W. & Cupp, L. 1993: Calling characteristics of parasitized and unparasitized populations of the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 33, 339-343.