Acoustic Communication in Fruit Flies and Mosquitoes

Differences in male Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus hearing systems facilitate recognition of conspecific female flight tones

“… 35 Mismatch in the most sensitive frequencies of male ear mechanical and electrical tuning have prompted researchers to suggest that male ears may instead be detecting the additional tones (distortion products) generated from the non-linear mixing of their own WBFs and conspecific female WBFs to acoustically detect flying females, a phenomenon arising from the non-linearities of the flagellum receiver and referred to as a distortion product (DP) based communication system. 36 , 37 , 40 , 41 …”