Males of most species of crickets and katydids produce species-specific calling songs to attract conspecific females. The typical stridulatory apparatus of the Ensifera consists of a file-and-scraper system in the basal dorsal region of the forewings (tegmina): the file on the underside of the cubital vein of one tegmen is composed of a series of lamelliform teeth and is run against the sclerot...

Youness Mabroukia, Abdelkhaleq Fouzi Taybib & Daniel Pierre Petitc*a Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mehraz, Biotechnology, Conservation and Valorisation Natural Resources Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Moroccob Faculté Pluridisciplinaire de Nador, Équipe Recherche en Biologie et Biotechnologie Appliquées, Université Mohammed Premier, Moroccoc Laboratoire Peirene EA7500, Lim...