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Issue: Vol. 4567 No. 3: 18 Mar. 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-03-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.3.9
Page range: 580–582
Abstract views: 80
PDF downloaded: 4

First description of sound emission of Rhaphiptera affinis Thomson, 1868 (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Pteropliini)

Laboratório de Anfíbios e Répteis, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, Prédio do CCS, Bloco A, Sala A1-111, Cidade Universitária, CEP 21941-902, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Laboratório de Anfíbios e Répteis, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, Prédio do CCS, Bloco A, Sala A1-111, Cidade Universitária, CEP 21941-902, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Laboratório de Coleoptera, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, CEP 04263-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Coleoptera Cerambycidae Lamiinae Pteropliini

Abstract

Cerambycidae is one of the largest families of beetles, containing about 38,000 described species (Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2018). In most species of this family, adults possess a stridulatory device that allows them to produce squeaking sounds (Wang 2017). In the subfamilies Prioninae and Parandrinae, individuals stridulate by rubbing their ridged hind femora against elytral margins (Švácha & Lawrence 2014). In the other subfamilies, including Lamiinae, the stridulation is produced by friction between the ventral face of the posterior pronotal margin (plectrum) and a striated plate on the mesoscutum (pars stridens) (Švácha & Lawrence 2014). Although some adults produce sounds during courtship and copulation, this sound production occurs mainly when individuals are disturbed, being considered a defensive mechanism that might act as a startle response against predators (Dumortier 1963; Švácha & Lawrence 2014; Wang 2017).

 

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