Regional Seismic Song Differences in Sky Island Populations of the Jumping Spider Habronattus Pugillis Griswold (Araneae, Salticidae)

Elias, Damian O.; Hebets, Eileen A.; Hoy, Ronald R.; Maddison, Wayne P.; Mason, Andrew C.

doi:10.1636/s05-77.1

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“…With the advent of non-contact methods of recording vibrations, such as laser vibrometry, the field has made substantial advances in recent years (e.g. Landolfa and Barth, 1996;Elias et al, 2006;Hebets et al, 2008;Wignall and Herberstein, 2013a).…”

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“…Habronattus dossenus; Elias et al, 2003) has initiated a broader research approach to incorporate additional sensory modalities in understanding courtship behavior in these groups. Among isolated mountaintop populations of Habronattus pugillis, for example, songs were determined to be distinct with respect to both spectral and temporal properties (Elias et al, 2006). Among 11 Habronattus coecatus group species, the vibratory songs alone consist of up to 20 elements, organized into functional groupings.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Dangerous mating systems: Signal complexity, signal content and neural capacity in spiders

Herberstein

Wignall

Hebets

et al. 2014

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Dangerous mating systems: Signal complexity, signal content and neural capacity in spiders

Herberstein

Wignall

Hebets

et al. 2014

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…The decreased mating success of muted males was thus dependent on female responses to substrate‐borne signals. This study provides further evidence that female mating decisions are influenced by substrate‐borne vibration signals (Edwards 1981; Gwynne & Dadour 1985; Maddison & Stratton 1988; Elias et al. 2003, 2005, 2006b).…”

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Vibratory Communication in the Jumping Spider Phidippus clarus: Substrate‐borne Courtship Signals are Important for Male Mating Success

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Recently, work has shown that multimodal communication is common throughout the animal kingdom but the function of multimodal signals is still poorly understood. Phidippus clarus are jumping spiders in which males produce multimodal (visual and vibrational) signals in both male–male (aggressive) and male–female (courtship) contexts. The P. clarus mating system is complex, with sex ratios and the level of male competition changing over the course of the breeding season. Vibrational signal components have been shown to function in male aggressive contests but their role in courtship has not been investigated. Here, we performed an experiment to test the role of vibrational signaling in courtship by observing mating success for males that were experimentally muted. We show that vibratory courtship signals, and in particular signaling rate, is an important component of mating success and potentially a target of female choice. While the ability to produce vibratory signals significantly increased mating success, some muted males were still able to successfully mate. In these trials, signaling rate also predicted mating success suggesting that redundant signal components may compensate for errors and perturbations in signal transmission or that vibratory signals function to enhance the efficacy of visual signals.

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“…This temporal structuring of displays is more analogous to a musical composition than to language syntax; hence, our choice of nomenclature for display descriptions. Complex displays are a characteristic of the genus Habronattus (Griswold, 1987; Cutler, 1988; Maddison & Stratton, 1988b; Maddison & McMahon, 2000; Masta, 2000; Elias et al ., 2003, 2005, 2006c, d) and members of the H. coecatus group are the maestros of the genus. Understanding the patterns that led to evolution of such highly complex displays is a challenge.…”

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“…Not unexpectedly, jumping spiders use vision as the dominant sense in a variety of contexts (predation: Harland & Jackson, 2002; Nelson & Jackson, 2009; navigation: Hill, 1979; Hoefler & Jakob, 2006; communication: Uhl & Elias, 2011). In some jumping spiders, males use substrate‐borne vibration signals (Jackson, 1980; Edwards, 1981; Maddison & Stratton, 1988a, b; Noordam, 2002; Elias et al ., 2003, 2006b, 2008) that are crucial to mating success (Elias et al ., 2005, 2010; Elias, Hebets & Hoy, 2006a; Sivalinghem et al ., 2010).…”

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Orchestrating the score: complex multimodal courtship in the Habronattus coecatus group of Habronattus jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)

Elias¹,

Maddison²,

Peckmezian³

et al. 2012

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Jumping spiders in the genus Habronattus use complex multimodal signals during courtship displays. In the present study, we describe multimodal displays from the Habronattus coecatus clade, comprising a diverse group of 23 described species. Habronattus coecatus group displays are made up of sex-specific ornamentation and temporally coordinated combinations of motion displays and vibratory songs. Vibratory songs are complex, consisting of up to 20 elements organized in functional groupings (motifs) that change as courtship progresses. This temporal structuring of displays is analogous to a musical composition. Vibratory elements are associated with movement displays involving coloured and patterned ornaments on the male body. We describe general patterns of multimodal displays for 11 species including one, Habronattus borealis, which appears to have lost complex display behaviour. Habronattus coecatus group courtship is one of the most complex communication systems yet described in arthropods and this group may reveal important factors driving the evolution of complex signals.

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Regional Seismic Song Differences in Sky Island Populations of the Jumping Spider Habronattus Pugillis Griswold (Araneae, Salticidae)

Cited by 26 publications

References 66 publications

Dangerous mating systems: Signal complexity, signal content and neural capacity in spiders

Dangerous mating systems: Signal complexity, signal content and neural capacity in spiders

Vibratory Communication in the Jumping Spider Phidippus clarus: Substrate‐borne Courtship Signals are Important for Male Mating Success

Orchestrating the score: complex multimodal courtship in the Habronattus coecatus group of Habronattus jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)

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