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    The tymbal (or timbal) is the corrugated exoskeletal structure used to produce sounds in insects. In male cicadas, the tymbals are membranes in the abdomen...
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    viridula sound 100 Hz vibration with a "tymbal" composed of a fused first and second terga (not to be confused with tymbal of cicadas) that allow bi-directional...
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    produced in most species by the rapid buckling and unbuckling of drum-like tymbals. The earliest known fossil Cicadomorpha appeared in the Upper Permian period;...
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    and amplifying sounds with special modifications to their body to form tymbals and associated musculature. The African cicada Brevisana brevis has been...
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    The sexes are similar in appearance, though the female lacks the male's tymbals and sac-like covers. Found in sclerophyll forest in Queensland and New...
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    with the piece of frontoclypeus anteriorly prominent. Its tymbal is completely covered with tymbal covering. By looking at the abdomen, the 8th tergum will...
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  • flies). While cicadas are well-known for sound production via abdominal tymbal organs, it has been demonstrated that some species can produce sounds via...
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    of any insect, is produced by tymbal organs on the underside of the abdomen, and is used to attract mates. The tymbals are drumlike disks of cuticle,...
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    produce sounds using a pair of tymbals, which are modified membranes located on the abdomen. In order to produce sound, each tymbal is pulled inwards by a connected...
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    Lithosiini Syntomini The most distinctive feature of the subfamily is a tymbal organ on the metathorax. This organ has membranes that are vibrated to produce...
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    indicate their unpalatability to bats with ultrasonic clicks from their tymbal organs. It is found from southern Canada and south through Texas and Florida...
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    generated by twisting an end of the tymbal, the membrane that produces sound in insects, with the wings. This causes the tymbal to buckle and results in the...
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  • Tibiceninae is a former subfamily name from the insect family Cicadidae (the true cicadas). It was first used by Distant (1889). As of 2021, the name became...
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  • 2009 The Roofer Miles Short 2010 Jack Goes Boating Waldorf Doorman 2010 Tymbals ROLE 2012 Killing Them Softly Stevie Caprio 2012 What Maisie Knew Musician...
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    changes with temperature, being correlated with the firing rate of the tymbal nerve. In Japan, the sound is popularly associated with melancholy, and...
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    sound caused by the contraction and relaxation of abdominal membranes (tymbal). This song has the function of sexual attraction for females. Usually males...
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    the female along with an ultrasonic signal emitted through the male's tymbals. The adult bee moth has a wingspan of 18-40 millimetres (0.71-1.57 inches)...
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    the males produce a very loud species-specific mating song using their tymbals. Singing males of the same Magicicada species tend to form aggregations...
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    on the body are covered with yellow velvety fur. The prominent sac-like tymbal covers are white. The wings are clear with reddish brown and yellowish veins...
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    and a loud and complex call generated by the frequent buckling of ribbed tymbals and amplified by abdominal air sacs. The floury baker is solitary and occurs...
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    intact, clicking C. tenera less frequently than surgically muted (with tymbal organs destroyed) moths in experiments. Intact moths emitted calls when...
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  • Forewings dark brown. Some specimen with sub-dorsal longitudinal dark bar. Tymbal organs are absent. Larval food plant is Hibiscus tiliaceus. Caterpillar...
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    insects (Paraneoptera). Acta Entomol. Bohemoslov., 89 (2): 77-86 Auchenorrhyncha website http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/Hort/ascu/tymbal/tymbal.htm v t e...
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    African sugar-cane borers communicate using ultrasound emitted from the tymbal, a sound producing membrane commonly found in insect species. Males producing...
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    attract mates. The sound is produced by a tymbal on each tegula, which covers the forewing. The left and right tymbals emit pulses slightly asynchronously....
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    Deitz, L. L. (1983). "North Carolina State University Insect Collection". Tymbal, Auchenorrhyncha Newsletter (Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London)...
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    These sounds, distinctive for each species, are produced by specialized tymbal organs on the abdomen as in most cicadas. These calls range from a loud...
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    across three tribes globally. Similar to cicadas, tiger moths possess tymbals on their metathorax, which they use to produce high frequency clicks. These...
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    on a pair of organs called tymbals on the base of the abdomen behind the wings. Muscle contraction rapidly deforms the tymbal membrane, emitting several...
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    tipped by a large, saw-edged ovipositor, while in males, it encloses the tymbal organ which is used in the production of the song. Purana tigrina was first...
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