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Abstract Rhabdiopteryx thienemanni Illies, 1957 is a stonefly species distributed across southern France and the Iberian Peninsula. The male drumming call of this species had been so far known only from a Spanish population, but the complete duet is unknown. In the present paper, complete three-way signal is described for the first time in details from a French population. The male call does not differ from the pattern presented by the Spanish population. Records of female answers are composed of a large repetition of knocks but interknock intervals are almost constant in the first two thirds of the signal and increasing progressively in the last part. The male reply is also composed of approximately constant interknock intervals that become variable (increasing) in the last part of the signal. The male reply mimics the female answer. The signal of R. thienemanni is compared with other Rhabdiopteryx species.
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Aquatic Insects is an international journal publishing original research on the systematics, biology, and ecology of aquatic and semi-aquatic insects.
The subject of the research is aquatic and semi-aquatic insects, comprising taxa of four primary orders, the Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera but also aquatic and semi-aquatic families of Hemiptera, Coleoptera, and Diptera, as well as specific representatives of Hymenoptera , Lepidoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera , and Neuroptera that occur in lotic and lentic habitats during part of their life cycle. Studies on other aquatic Hexapoda (i.e., Collembola) will be only accepted if space permits. Papers on other aquatic Arthropoda (e.g., Crustacea) will not be considered, except for those closely related to aquatic and semi-aquatic insects (e.g., water mites as insect parasites).
The topic of the research may include a wide range of biological fields. Taxonomic revisions and descriptions of individual species will be accepted especially if additional information is included on habitat preferences, species co-existing, behavior, phenology, collecting methods, etc., that are of general interest to an international readership. Descriptions based on single specimens are discouraged.
Detailed studies on morphology, physiology, behavior, and phenology of aquatic insects in all stadia of their life cycle are welcome as well as the papers with molecular and phylogenetic analyses, especially if they discuss evolutionary processes of the biological, ecological, and faunistic formation of the group.