Intraspecific sexual mimicry for finding females in a cicada: males produce ‘female sounds’ to gain reproductive benefit

Luo, Chenxi; Wang, Cong

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.01.013

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“…The species was previously placed in the subfamily Tettigadinae [32, 33] but was removed recently to the subfamily Tibicininae [34]. This rare endemic species distributed in the Loess Plateau and adjacent areas of northwestern China [35] is unusual in that the males possess a well-developed stridulatory mechanism in addition to the timbals, and in that the females also possess the same stridulatory organs as males [32, 33]. The species was, until recently, considered to be extinct, because it had not been found in the field since 1980s and was only known from museum specimens collected from the center of Shaanxi Province.…”

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“…Nevertheless, S. yangi was rediscovered in June of 2011 during a survey of the insect fauna of the Helan Mountains which is surrounded by deserts and semi-desert. This provided an opportunity to study this little-known species, and led to the discovery of the positive phonotaxis and acoustical sexual mimicry in males [35–37]. During our field investigations of S. yangi since 2011, a few more populations were discovered from the Loess Plateau in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Gansu provinces, which were all attracted and sampled using our special acoustic playback method [35].…”

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Genetic divergence, population differentiation and phylogeography of the cicada Subpsaltria yangi based on molecular and acoustic data: an example of the early stage of speciation?

Liu

Dietrich

2019

BMC Evol Biol

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BackgroundGeographical isolation combined with historical climatic fluctuations have been identified as two major factors that contribute to the formation of new species. On the other hand, biotic factors such as competition and predation are also able to drive the evolution and diversification of organisms. To determine whether geographical barriers contributed to population divergence or speciation in the rare endemic cicada Subpsaltria yangi the population differentiation, genetic structure and phylogeography of the species were investigated in the Loess Plateau and adjacent areas of northwestern China by analysing mitochondrial and nuclear DNA and comparing the calling song structure of 161 male individuals.ResultsThe results reveal a low level of genetic differentiation and relatively simple phylogeographic structure for this species, but two independent clades corresponding to geographically isolated populations were recognised. Genetic and geographical distances were significantly correlated among lineages. Results of divergence-time estimation are consistent with a scenario of isolation due to glacial refugia and interglacial climate oscillation in northwestern China. Significant genetic divergence was found between the population occurring in the Helan Mountains and other populations, and recent population expansion has occurred in the Helan Mountains and/or adjacent areas. This population is also significantly different in calling song structure from other populations.ConclusionsGeographical barriers (i.e., the deserts and semi-deserts surrounding the Helan Mountains), possibly coupled with related ecological differences, may have driven population divergence and allopatric speciation. This provides a possible example of incipient speciation in Cicadidae, improves understanding of population differentiation, acoustic signal diversification and phylogeographic relationships of this rare cicada species of conservation concern, and informs future studies on population differentiation, speciation and phylogeography of other insects with a high degree of endemism in the Helan Mountains and adjacent areas.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12862-018-1317-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Genetic divergence, population differentiation and phylogeography of the cicada Subpsaltria yangi based on molecular and acoustic data: an example of the early stage of speciation?

Liu

Dietrich

2019

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“…Moreover, during male–male courtship, virilis males can switch between the production of female-like secondary or male-like primary song based on their role as courtee or courter, respectively ( Video 5 ). While some insects participate in sexual mimicry (imitating the song of the partner) during male–female courtship ( Luo and Wei, 2015 ), ours is, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of context-dependence of duetting behavior in any animal species. Therefore, dissecting the neural circuit basis for song production in D. virilis promises to reveal novel insights into how animals rapidly modulate behavior in response to changing sensory feedback.…”

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Acoustic duetting in Drosophila virilis relies on the integration of auditory and tactile signals

LaRue

Clemens

Berman

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Many animal species, including insects, are capable of acoustic duetting, a complex social behavior in which males and females tightly control the rate and timing of their courtship song syllables relative to each other. The mechanisms underlying duetting remain largely unknown across model systems. Most studies of duetting focus exclusively on acoustic interactions, but the use of multisensory cues should aid in coordinating behavior between individuals. To test this hypothesis, we develop Drosophila virilis as a new model for studies of duetting. By combining sensory manipulations, quantitative behavioral assays, and statistical modeling, we show that virilis females combine precisely timed auditory and tactile cues to drive song production and duetting. Tactile cues delivered to the abdomen and genitalia play the larger role in females, as even headless females continue to coordinate song production with courting males. These data, therefore, reveal a novel, non-acoustic, mechanism for acoustic duetting. Finally, our results indicate that female-duetting circuits are not sexually differentiated, as males can also produce ‘female-like’ duets in a context-dependent manner.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07277.001

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“…The attraction of males to sound traps that broadcast the male song to attract females was already reported (Alexander and Moore 1958;Ulagaraj and Walker 1973;Villet 1992). Male attraction to the sound trap can be associated to the sound emitted by females attracted to the sound trap to aid pair formation (Cooley 2001;Luo and Wei 2015), but this is probably not occurring in this case because more males were captured in the sound trap than females at 10-12 DAME (Fig. 4).…”

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Giant Cicada Emergence, Protandry and Chorus Centers Formation as Revealed by Studies Using a Sound Trap

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The giant cicada, Quesada gigas (Olivier) (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), is an important coffee pest and information about the behavior and reproduction of this species, e.g. emergence, senescence and ovarian maturation status, can be valuable to understand giant cicada ecology and to improve the use of a sound trap as a control method. A great number of Q. gigas adult males and females was captured using a sound trap and a protandrous type of emergence possibly associated with chorus centers formation was observed. All giant cicadas collected until 14-15 days after the beginning of male emergence (DAME) had immature ovaries at two different years of evaluation. On the other hand, the majority of cicadas collected from 20 until 48 DAME had mature ovaries with visible chorionated oocytes. Despite the use of the sound trap to collect insects for ecological studies, we believe that next generations of Q. gigas can be reduced by using this sound trap to hinder the formation of giant cicada chorus centers, to reduce male availability to copulate with females and to reduce the number of females to oviposit in coffee plants.

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Intraspecific sexual mimicry for finding females in a cicada: males produce ‘female sounds’ to gain reproductive benefit

Cited by 24 publications

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Genetic divergence, population differentiation and phylogeography of the cicada Subpsaltria yangi based on molecular and acoustic data: an example of the early stage of speciation?

Genetic divergence, population differentiation and phylogeography of the cicada Subpsaltria yangi based on molecular and acoustic data: an example of the early stage of speciation?

Acoustic duetting in Drosophila virilis relies on the integration of auditory and tactile signals

Giant Cicada Emergence, Protandry and Chorus Centers Formation as Revealed by Studies Using a Sound Trap

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