For hours that and the prolonged stridulating of the crickets were the only sounds.
Scudder has described an annectant insect in Devonian strata, furnished with a stridulating apparatus.
Whatever may be the true explanation of stridulatingorgans in adult beetles, sexual selection can have had nothing to do with the presence of these highly-developed larval structures.
The root-feeding larvae of the cockchafer and allied members of the Scarabaeidae have a ridged area on the mandible, which is scraped by teeth on the maxillae, apparently forming a stridulating organ.
The function of the stridulating organs just described is presumably to afford means of recognition by sound.
In a large number of beetles of different families, stridulating areas occur on various segments of the abdomen, and are scraped by the elytra.
Insects and some few spiders are the lowest animals which voluntarily produce any sound; and this is generally effected by the aid of beautifully constructed stridulating organs, which are often confined to the males alone.
The males have stridulatingorgans at the bases of the front wings.
They have long antennæ, large ovipositors, and stridulating organs at the base of the wings in the male.
In the Locustidae the same members have a sloping position on each side of the body, and do not overlap, except to a small extent near their bases; it is out of this small portion that the stridulating organ is contrived.
Landois has observed another important fact, namely, that in the females of the Acridiidae, the stridulating teeth on the femora remain throughout life in the same condition in which they first appear during the larval state in both sexes.
Achetidae, stridulation of the; rudimentary stridulatingorgans in female.
Insects and some few spiders are the lowest animals which voluntarily produce any sound; and this is generally effected by the aid of beautifully constructed stridulating organs, which are often confined to the males.
Nevertheless, the power of stridulating is certainly a sexual character in some few Coleoptera.
We are in a slightly better position when we turn to the land-living arthropods; here the presence of stridulatingorgans in so many instances carries with it the necessity of an organ for appreciating sound.
In two families of the Homoptera the males alone possess, in an efficient state, organs which may be called vocal; and in three families of the Orthoptera the males alone possess stridulating organs.
Mutilla Europaea emits a stridulating noise; and according to Goureau[483] both sexes have this power.
Mr. Crotch has discovered that the males alone of two species of Heliopathes (Tenebrionidae) possess stridulating organs.
We thus see that the stridulating organs in the different coleopterous families are wonderfully diversified in position, but not much in structure.
This naturalist has lately found a fossil insect in the Devonian formation of New Brunswick, which is furnished with "the well-known tympanum orstridulating apparatus of the male Locustidae.
In the females, however, of all three species of Oryctes, when the abdomen of a softened specimen is pushed backwards and forwards, a slight grating or stridulating sound can be produced.
Scudder has described an insect in the Devonian strata, furnished with a stridulating apparatus.
They have long antenn\'91, large ovipositors, and stridulatingorgans at the base of the wings in the male.
Mott showed what a locust stridulating in the air would be called upon to do if the present theory of sound were correct.
Its stridulating apparatus was of the type common among the Aviculariidae.
The stridulating apparatus is by no means always in the same place; the thorax may rub against the abdomen, the leg against the wing-cover, or one of the mouth appendages against another.
Most of the Crabs belonging to this genus possess a curious "stridulating organ" on one of the large claws, by means of which they can produce a buzzing or hissing sound.
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