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A stridulation organ consisting of several of these quills is also present, and when the quills are rubbed together they emit a high-pitched sound which is hypothesized to be a source of communication among individuals.
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European Society of Arachnology ... Online access to these publications is restricted to members of the European Society of Arachnology ... Haupt J – An organ of stridulation in east Asian hexathelid spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) 19–23...
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Stridulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stridulation is the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts. This behavior is mostly associated with insects, but other animals are known to do this as well, such as a number of...
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Extant female leaf insects and nonadult males have short antennae with a stridulatory organ. ... In females, stridulation can be triggered by approaching males (35) or by disturbance (20). It is not known whether these sounds can be used by bats to locate leaf insects, but it is documented that gleaning bats use song...
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The acoustic mechanics of stick–slip friction in the California spiny lobster (Panulirus interruptus) ... Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA ... Accepted 6 August 2007...
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An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information. ... description and biology; PDF doc plus images of male and female, and SEM images of stridulation organ (James Dunford et al, Great Smoky Mountains National Park);
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In insects, organs that produce sound when rubbed together. Crickets rub their wings together, but grasshoppers rub a hind leg against a wing. Stridulation is thought to be used for attracting mates, but may also serve to mark territory.
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