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common meadow katydid

Orchelimum vulgare

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Stridulatory movements of O. vulgare.

Movements of forewings during calling, plotted frame-by-frame from high-speed motion picture film. The higher the dots the more the wings are apart, and the lower the dots the more nearly closed are the wings.

This graph shows forewing movement during five complete wingstroke cycles from the "buzz" portion of the song. Morris and Walker (1976) concluded that the more rapid opening stroke produces a "minor pulse train" and the slower closing stroke produces a "major pulse train (these two types of trains alternate during a buzz).

This method of determining how the forewings move during calling is described by Walker et al. (1970).