Vibratory Communication and its Relevance to Reproductive Isolation in two Sympatric Stink Bug Species (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae)

Laumann, R. A.; Čokl, Andrej; Blassioli‐Moraes, Maria Carolina; Borges, Miguel

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“…The list of until now identified and described stink bug vibrational signals [4] includes Aelia acuminata (L.), Carpocoris fuscispinus (Boheman), Carpocoris purpuriepennis (De Geer), Carpocoris pudicus (Poda) [78], C. impicticornis [32], C. ubica [33], C. hilare [27], Chlorochroa juniperina (L.), Chlorochroa pinicola (Mulsan & Rey) [78], C. ligata, C. uhleri, C. sayi [36], Codophila varia (Fabr.) [78], D. melacanthus [31], Dolycoris baccarum (L.) [78], E. meditabunda [30], Eurydema ornata (L.), E. oleracea (L.) [78], E. conspersus [29], E. heros [32], Graphosoma semipunctatum (Fabr.…”

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“…Although communication with multimodal signals attracts a higher number of predators, insects often use them to decrease the impact of environmental noise [91] and to increase the efficiency of the sensory and neuronal system [92] by extracting the information sequentially, transmitted by different rate and at different distances [93]. Sex pheromones [17,18] belong to the group of unimodal signals, together with visual [20], contact chemical and mechanical ones used at short distance before copulation [26,30,33,86,94]. Mechanical signals produced by vibration of the body or its different parts represent the multimodal signals because their airborne and substrate-borne components are transmitted through different media and are detected by different receptors.…”

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“…The interaction and synergy of contact signals produced immediately before and after copulation by antennation, butting, tapping [28,32,33,86] and scraping of the female abdomen with the hind legs [19] is poorly understood. The role of the stink bug cuticular carbons during courtship communication also needs further studies.…”

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“…The courtship phase of stink bug of mating behavior, described first by Fish and Alcock [23] in Chlorochroa ligata (Say) and Cosmopepla bimaculata (Thomas) was confirmed in other pentatomine species like Nezara antennata (Scott) and N. viridula [24,25,26], Chinavia hilare (Say) [27]), Thyanta custator accera (Fabr.) and Thyanta pallidovirens (Stål) [28], Euschistus conspersus (Uhler) [29], E. meditabunda [30], D. melacanthus [31], Chinavia impicticornis (Stål) [32] and Chinavia ubica (Rolston) [33]. The authors described short range communication with substrate-transmitted courtship songs, antennation and butting in all species investigated so far.…”

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“…The female courtship song, described in 15 stink bug species [19] is triggered by male courting and lasts a shorter time; its pattern of combined pulses and/or pulse trains shows less regularity compared with calling songs. The female courtship song pulse trains develop from the female calling song pulses in C. impicticornis [32], C. ubica [33] and N. viridula [34]. Complex courtship song pulse trains constituted by shorter and longer pulses are emitted by C. uhleri [36] and P. guildinii [32].…”

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Stink Bug Communication with Multimodal Signals Transmitted through Air and Substrate

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This review represents complex mechanisms and processes of multimodal communication in stink bugs. During reproductive behavior the airborne and substrate-borne signals enable mate recognition, mediate directionality of movement, eliminate rivals and motivate partners for copulation. Species specific characteristics prevent hybridization at various levels of mating behavior. Male sex and/or aggregation pheromones as uni-or multicomponent signals attract mates to land on the same plant and there, trigger females to call males by vibratory signals, transmitted through the plant. Communication during courtship runs at short distance with visual, airborne, substrate-borne and contact chemical and mechanical signals. Abdomen vibrations produce the main repertoire of female and male calling, courtship and rival vibratory signals. To increase their informational value, stink bugs tune signal frequency, amplitude and temporal characteristics with mechanical properties of plants. The airborne component of species non-specific and high amplitude signals, produced by body tremulation and wing buzzing enables communication contact between mates standing on mechanically isolated plants. Female vibratory signals increase the amount of male emitted pheromone and the latter keeps female calling. Interaction, synergy and characteristics of visual, contact chemical and vibratory signals, exchanged during courtship remain under-investigated. Female and male competition for access to copulation in imbalanced sex conditions is characterized by duetting with rival song vibratory signals. Different receptors in and on different parts of the body are able to detect with high sensitivity multimodal airborne and substrate-borne communication signals. The relevance of the multimodal communication for the reproductive success of stink bugs is discussed. -IntroductionMillions of insect species inhabit air, water and land. Population success depends crucially on efficient communication, which enables solitary species to meet in the field and holds insect societies together. To preserve above-threshold signal-to-noise ratio at the necessary distance, solitary insects developed, through evolution, efficient mechanisms to communicate by unimodal, multimodal and multicomponent signals [1] transmitted through different media. Investigation of insect communication demands a holistic approach to understand the role, synergy and interaction of specific processes underlying different phases of behavior. The study on the wandering spider Cuppienius salei (Keyserlink, 1877) represents a nice example of such an approach, showing the complex system of communication through different channels in various environmental conditions [2]. Comparable studies are rare in insects and, despite numerous solutions and a variety of mechanisms, there are very few common and general conclusions.plant-dwelling phytophagous insects with several pest species that inspired numerous studies of their biology, ecology, feeding habits and conditions of their plant environment [3...

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