Insect Sounds and Communication

Sakis Drosopoulos, Michael F. Claridge

• GENERAL ASPECTS OF INSECT SOUNDS. The Auditory-Vibratory Sensory System in Bushcrickets. Sense Organs Involved in Vibratory Communication. Use of Substrate Vibrations for Orientation. Size-Frequency Relationships. Signals and Temperature. Insect Songs. Evolution and Speciation. Acoustic Communication in Neuropterid Insects. Inheritance of Male Sound Characteristics. Mate Searching Behaviour. Communication by Substrate-Borne Vibrations. Partitioning of Acoustic Transmission Channels. Geographical Distribution and Speciation. Acoustic Evolutionary Divergence. Acoustic Communication, Mating Behaviour, and Hybridization. Photoperiodism, Morphology and Acoustic Behaviour. Genus Mutual Eavesdropping in a Host-Parasitoid Interaction. SOUNDS IN VARIOUS TAXA. Vibrational Communication. Acoustic Characters in Classification of Auchenorrhyncha. Acoustic Signals, Diversity, and Behaviour of Cicadas. Vibratory Communication and Mating Behaviour. Communication by Vibratory Signals. Stridulation in the Coleoptera. Vibratory and Airborne-Sound Signals in Bee Communication.

This voluminous monograph (532 pp.) on insect sounds and communication is the first multi-author publication to comprehensively review the current state of research on sound communication within the most important insect orders. …Thirty-two chapters written by top specialists from all over the world cover general aspects of insect sounds, their relation to morphology, development and physiology, review techniques of sound analysis, and describe how different species generate and perceive sounds. … Insect Sound and Communication is an important milestone for all students of insect acoustics. However, it is written for a broader readership, including entomologists, evolutionary scientists, sensory physiologists and neuroscientists, and is also a welcome source of information for ethologists, ecologists and experts in audiosciences. Biology scholars with broad interests will also find it useful.—J. Ždárek, European Journal of Entomology, 103, 778, 2006In Insect Sounds and Communication, Sakis Drosopoulos and Michael F. Claridge have put together a volume that summarizes the current state of the discipline in insect bioacoustics…. It can be quite useful to have a brief review of a single question and a volume such as this is the ideal forum. Likewise, those contributions covering a particular system in more detail provide a valuable digest of the diversity of insect acoustic communication. Drosopoulos and Claridge have put together a volume that will benefit anyone with an interest in insect bioacoustics and that I, for one, expect to return frequently.—Andrew Mason, University of Toronto-Scarborough, Annals of Entomological Society of America, Vol. 102, No.4, July 2009The editors and publishers of this book maintained high standards…. This book should be bought by those who are deeply interested in acoustical communication in insects and by research libraries, so that their clients can benefit from a book that deals at length and in depth with sound communication in insect groups that most entomologists long thought were mute.—T. J. Walker, University of Florida, Florida Entomologist 89(3), September 2006