The pupal sound Production of some Lycaenidae

Abstract

SOUNDS PRODUCED BY PUPAE have been known for nearly 200 years ( Kleeman' s listening to C allophrys rubi L., 177 4). Prell ( 1913) described the noise and made drawings of the stridulatory devices in Thecla quercus L. Hinton ( 1948) summarized the general literature on pupal sound in the Lepidoptera and presented four types of mechanisms involved. Downey ( 1966) brought together the scattered information on sound in pupae of Lycaenidae and noted the occurrence of the organs which produce sound in a great number of species, and he was able to increase the list of known sound producing Lycaenid pupae from 25 previously reported to 82.