Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating
- 2 Sexual selection by cryptic female choice in insects and arachnids
- 3 Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating patterns
- 4 Sexual selection in resource defense polygyny: lessons from territorial grasshoppers
- 5 Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
- 6 The evolution of edible ‘sperm sacs’ and other forms of courtship feeding in crickets, katydids and their kin (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
- 7 The evolution of mating systems in the Zoraptera: mating variations and sexual conflicts
- 8 The evolution of water strider mating systems: causes and consequences of sexual conflicts
- 9 Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- 10 Firefly mating ecology, selection and evolution
- 11 Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola: sexuality in neuropterid insects
- 12 Mating systems of parasitoid wasps
- 13 Fig–associated wasps: pollinators and parasites, sex–ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences
- 14 Evolution of mate–signaling in moths: phylogenetic considerations and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis
- 15 Sexual dimorphism, mating systems and ecology in butterflies
- 16 Lek behavior of insects
- 17 Mate choice and species isolation in swarming insects
- 18 Function and evolution of antlers and eye stalks in flies
- 19 Sex via the substrate: mating systems and sexual selection in pseudoscorpions
- 20 Jumping spider mating strategies: sex among cannibals in and out of webs
- 21 Sexual conflict and the evolution of mating systems
- Organism index
- Subject index
14 - Evolution of mate–signaling in moths: phylogenetic considerations and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating
- 2 Sexual selection by cryptic female choice in insects and arachnids
- 3 Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating patterns
- 4 Sexual selection in resource defense polygyny: lessons from territorial grasshoppers
- 5 Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
- 6 The evolution of edible ‘sperm sacs’ and other forms of courtship feeding in crickets, katydids and their kin (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
- 7 The evolution of mating systems in the Zoraptera: mating variations and sexual conflicts
- 8 The evolution of water strider mating systems: causes and consequences of sexual conflicts
- 9 Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- 10 Firefly mating ecology, selection and evolution
- 11 Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola: sexuality in neuropterid insects
- 12 Mating systems of parasitoid wasps
- 13 Fig–associated wasps: pollinators and parasites, sex–ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences
- 14 Evolution of mate–signaling in moths: phylogenetic considerations and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis
- 15 Sexual dimorphism, mating systems and ecology in butterflies
- 16 Lek behavior of insects
- 17 Mate choice and species isolation in swarming insects
- 18 Function and evolution of antlers and eye stalks in flies
- 19 Sex via the substrate: mating systems and sexual selection in pseudoscorpions
- 20 Jumping spider mating strategies: sex among cannibals in and out of webs
- 21 Sexual conflict and the evolution of mating systems
- Organism index
- Subject index
Summary
ABSTRACT
Mate–finding in the large majority of moths is mediated by a long–distance response of males to minute quantities of pheromone emitted by females. Additionally, in many species, males may produce their own pheromone, which is employed after the sexes are brought together. More rarely, males produce acoustic signals and/or a long–distance pheromone. In the latter case, females assume the searching role. The female pheromone systems of the Heteroneura, a group that makes up 99% of extant Lepidoptera, may have had a single origin with relatively little change occurring subsequently, either in the types of chemicals used or in the glandular structures for pheromone production and release. In addition, female signaling appears to be a plesiomorphic trait for the Lepidoptera that likely was lost independently several times among the primitive groups. Recent research points to the female sternum V gland (located on the fifth abdominal sternum), found throughout primitive Lepidoptera, as the most likely evolutionary predecessor of the heteroneuran sexpheromone system. This gland, which is shared with the sister group Trichoptera, also appears to play a defensive role in some species of the two orders. In contrast to the conservation of female pheromone systems, the incidence of male pheromones in moths is exceedingly polyphyletic and labile, suggesting intense and repeated selection for a transient function. Male acoustic signaling, although less prevalent, also appears to have had multiple origins.
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- The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids , pp. 240 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997
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