stridulation

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strid·u·late

(strĭj′ə-lāt′)

v. strid·u·lat·ed, strid·u·lat·ing, strid·u·lates

v.intr.

To produce a shrill grating, chirping, or hissing sound by rubbing body parts together, as certain insects do.

v.tr.

To produce by rubbing body parts together: "The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note" (John Updike).

[From Latin strīdulus, stridulous; see stridulous.]

strid′u·la′tion n.

strid′u·la·to′ry (-lə-tôr′ē) adj.

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stridulation

1. an action characteristic of some insects of producing a shrill, grating noise by chafing a serrated part of the body against a hard part.
2. the noise so produced. — stridulator, n. — stridulant, stridulatory, adj.

See also: Sound

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stridulation - a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together

noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"

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La stridulation qui semble constituee le chant de ralliement des acridiens de tout bord s'est transformee en bruit de fond.

Le temps des acridiens - ALBAYANE

Ingrisch S (1998b) Monograph of the Oriental Agraeciini (Insecta, Ensifera, Tettigoniidae): Taxonomic revision, phylogeny, biogeography, stridulation, and development.

Preliminary study on the diversity of Orthoptera from Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, Brunei Darussalam, Borneo

behaviors in spiders include percussion, stridulation, and tremulation,

A review of the mechanisms and functional roles of male silk use in spider courtship and mating

(1980) Some notes on larval stridulation in Neotropical Passalidae (Coleoptera: Lamellicornia).

IN MEMORIAM: PEDRO REYES CASTILLO

On the functions of stridulation by the passalid beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus (Coleoptera: Passalidae).

Egg-guarding behavior of the treehopper Ennya chrysura (Hemiptera: Membracidae): female aggregations, egg parasitism, and a possible substrate-borne alarm signal

We present the first empirical evidence in aquatic Isopoda that males of Cymodoce japonica produce sound by stridulation, or the rubbing together of body parts.

Sound production in the aquatic isopod Cymodoce japonica (Crustacea: Peracarida)

Bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) produce acoustic signals via stridulation that function in pair formation (Barr 1969; Ryker & Rudinsky 1976b), male-male competition (Rudinsky & Michael 1974; Rudinsky & Ryker 1976), release from predators (Lewis & Cane 1990) and the potential mediation of intraspecific competition among females (Rudinsky & Michael 1973).

Characterization of stridulatory structures and sounds of the larger Mexican pine beetle, Dendroctonus approximatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Sismondo, "Synchronous, alternating, and phase-locked stridulation by a tropical katydid," Science, vol.

Modeling and simulation of synchronous threshold in vent collective behavior

Sanbourne, "Stridulation in Merope tuber (Mecoptera: Meropeidae)," The Canadian Entomologist, vol.

Report on a large collection of Merope tuber newman, 1838 (Mecoptera: Meropeidae), from Arkansas, with notes on collection technique, sex ratio, and male clasper size

Field Notes--When you've held catfish to unhook them or snap a photo, you may have heard them make high-frequency croaking, or stridulation, types of sounds.

Croaking cats

Sorensen (1895) hypothesized that pectoral stridulation in South American catfishes could alert predators to the spine, and therefore Kaatz (1999) suggested that these sounds may have an aposematic function (Tellechea et al., 2011).