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FREQUENCY MODULATION IN CONOCEPHALUS NIGROPLEURUM, THE BLACK-SIDED MEADOW KATYDID (ORTHOPTERA: TETTIGONIIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Robert E. Pipher  and
Glenn K. Morris
Robert E. Pipher
Affiliation:
Inficon Inc., Syracuse, New York
Glenn K. Morris
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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Abstract

Frequency modulation has been discovered in the calling song of a conocephaline katydid, Conocephalus nigropleurum (Bruner). Real time sound spectrum analysis reveals a drop of 5 khz during the closing wingstroke.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 106 , Issue 9 , September 1974 , pp. 997 - 1001
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1974

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