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Like numerous other orthopterans, mole crickets use sounds for intraspecific communication. The species of Gryllotalpa genus produce at least six types of signals of which five are used in contacts underground and the sixth one, the calling song, is used in distant signaling (Zhantiev and Korsunovskaya, 1973). Females are attracted by artificial models of the male calling signal. We studied this reaction in two species, G.unispina Sauss., in Ashkhabad district of the Turcmenian SSR and G.sp. (new species is closely related to G.gryllotalpa) in the environs of Grozny.
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Chukanov, V.S., Lapshin, D.N. (1990). Acoustic Behavior of Mole Crickets of Gryllotalpa Genus. In: Gribakin, F.G., Wiese, K., Popov, A.V. (eds) Sensory Systems and Communication in Arthropods. Advances in Life Sciences. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6410-7_29
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