Crickets once again. About the photos?

Question

Crickets are one of the insects with strigils (yea, sorry about stridulator - shouldn't it be stridulation organ?). I made photos of their wings - with help of microscope and I can see there sth what looks like a comb. I only want to know if it is it. Photos are not good but the main string you can see on them looks a little bit like a comb.

http://my.opera.com/pancerna-rusauka/albums/showpic.dml?album=189233&picture=2820704

http://my.opera.com/pancerna-rusauka/albums/showpic.dml?album=189233&picture=2820706

http://my.opera.com/pancerna-rusauka/albums/showpic.dml?album=189233&picture=2820701


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Answer 1

Me again. I wish i would have seen what species you were taking photos of before i answered your last question. Seeing as you are looking at Aceta domestica, the strigils (stridulating organ) would be on the inside surface of the forewings. Because these crickets do not use the typical leg-to-wing method to produce their sound, you might want to tear off the forewings, and flip them upside down, then look at the outer-inside edge of the forewings.

Thanks again for the points before, it's nice to see someone who actually asks intelligent questions, that makes it fun for intelligent people to answer.....keep up the good work!

Like I mentioned earlier, the strigils you will be looking for should be comb shaped or washboard shaped in appearance, just look around carefully, you'll find them!

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Here is how it is referred to in one encyclopedia:

"Male crickets chirp by rubbing a scraper located on one forewing along a row of 50–250 teeth on the opposite forewing. "

and another:

"In most subfamilies the males have song-producing, or stridulatory, organs on the front wings. Both sexes possess auditory organs on the forelegs. The stridulatory apparatus is most highly developed in the field crickets and the tree crickets. Members of these subfamilies have a ridged region, which acts as a file, and a hardened region, which acts as a scraper, on each front wing; sound is produced by rubbing the wings together."

Hope this helps! Cool photos, btw.

Answer 3

You have to learn to think like a cricket.