Research Article Journal of Orthoptera Research 2022, 31(2): 191-196 Allometric effect of body size and tegmen mirror area on sound generaior characiers in Euconocephalus pallidus (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Copiphorini) from Singapore MING KAI TAN! 1 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117558, Singapore. Corresponding author: Ming Kai Tan (orthoptera.mingkai@gmail.com) Academic editor: Klaus-Gerhard Heller | Received 25 January 2022 | Accepted 6 April 2022 | Published 1 November 2022 https://zoobank.org/12C65D1E-4B02-4FE3-AB7C-7D2A1E2C9509 Citation: Tan MK (2022) Allometric effect of body size and tegmen mirror area on sound generator characters in Euconocephalus pallidus (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Copiphorini) from Singapore. Journal of Orthoptera Research 31(2): 191-196. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.31.81126 Abstract Acoustic communication, including allometry of secondary sexual traits and body size, can differ among katydid species from different parts of the world. However, Neotropical species tend to be better studied than their Southeast Asian relatives. This is true for the tribe Copiphorini (Orthop- tera, Tettigoniidae). To allow for future comparative studies of Neotropi- cal and Palaeotropical Copiphorini, the allometric relationships between sound generator characters and body size of Euconocephalus pallidus from Singapore were examined. Five sound generator characters-tegmen length, stridulatory file length, tooth width, teeth density, and mirror area—were cor- related with pronotum length as the proxy for body size. Stridulatory file length, tooth width, and teeth density were also correlated with the mirror area. The relationships were subsequently tested for difference between scal- ing slope and isometry based on 29 male adults from a single population. All sound generator characters except teeth density exhibited significant positive correlations with pronotum length, whereas teeth density exhibited significant negative correlation with pronotum length. Among them, only tooth width and teeth density scaled hyperallometrically, while the other characters scaled isometrically. As males produce a continuous buzzing call over long durations, larger teeth (i.e., larger tooth width and lower teeth density to accommodate larger teeth) are probably more resistant to age-re- lated abrasion. This may imply that males with larger teeth can produce calls recognized and/or favored by the females over a longer part of the males’ adult lifespan. File length and mirror area exhibited isometric scaling. This suggests a stabilizing selection driven by their function in dictating carrier frequency, which females tend to rely on to recognize conspecific males. Keywords acoustic communication, cone-headed katydid, mirror, Southeast Asia, stridulatory structure, tegmen morphology Introduction Studying the allometric relationships between morphological traits and body size is important to understand the evolutionary patterns of within-species variations in morphology (Shingleton et al. 2007, 2008). Many morphological characters are pheno- typically plastic and correlate with body size, often owing to the influence of environmental conditions (Shingleton et al. 2009). Some of the morphological characters under the influence of se- lection can become disproportionately larger or smaller with in- creasing body size (i.e., hyperallometry) (Shingleton et al. 2007, 2008, Rodriguez and Eberhard 2019). For example, sexual selec- tion tends to favor the hyperallometry of secondary sexual traits (Bonduriansky and Day 2003; Bonduriansky 2007). Studying the allometric relationships between these traits and body size can of- fer insights into patterns of sexual selection. For animals that communicate using sound to find and attract mates, the acoustic signals produced by males can sometimes reveal information about the male condition and/or quality to the female (Bennet-Clark 1998, Bentsen et al. 2006, Brown et al. 2006). The sound generator characters responsible for producing the acoustic signals can thus be subjected to female preference, male-male com- petition, and sexual selection, and consequently exhibit hyperal- lometry (Anichini et al. 2017, Rebrina et al. 2020). In some instanc- es, larger sound generator characters are an indication of better body condition, because developing and maintaining these structures can be energetically costly (Del Castillo and Gwynne 2007). Hence, fe- males can exhibit a preference for acoustic signals produced by larg- er sound generator characters. Furthermore, larger sound generator characters can also be more resistant to wear and tear, conferring males with larger sound generator characters to be more competi- tive in producing sound to locate and attract mates than males with smaller ones (Ritchie et al. 1995, Anichini et al. 2017). In many species of katydids (Tettigonioidea Krauss, 1902), males also produce sound to attract females, and the sound gen- erator characters are found on their asymmetrical tegmina (Mon- tealegre-Z 2009, Montealegre-Z et al. 2017). These include the stridulatory file, a specialized serrated vein on the left tegmen that produces sound when the teeth hit against the scraper on the right tegmen, as well as the mirror, a specialized cell membrane on the right tegmen that helps amplify the sound and dictate resonance and frequency (e.g., Morris and Pipher 1967, Bailey 1970, Mon- tealegre-Z and Postles 2010). The biophysical mechanics of sound production, allometry of sound generator characters in katydids, and how they play a role in attracting mates and avoiding preda- tors have been well studied (e.g., Bailey 1967, 1970, Sales and Pye 1974, Heller 1995, Ritchie et al. 1995, Bennet-Clark 1998, Morris JOURNAL OF ORTHOPTERA RESEARCH 2022, 31(2) 192 1999). These enabled more recent works that examined allometry of sound generator characters in a broad range of species while ac- counting for phylogenetic relatedness (e.g., Montealegre-Z 2009) and that focused on targeted species to build on studies of sexu- al selection in katydids (e.g., Anichini et al. 2017, Rebrina et al. 2020). The comparative study by Montealegre-Z (2009) also dem- onstrated that many sound generator characters exhibited hyperal- lometry with body size, but Anichini et al. (2017) and Rebrina et al. (2020) showed that this is not necessarily the case in Poecilimon Fischer, 1853 (subfamily Phaneropterinae). While Anichini et al. (2017) and Rebrina et al. (2020) based their investigation on temperate model species, Montealegre-Z (2009) provided a comparative study of 58 tropical species-most of which are from the Neotropics. Heller (1995) previously dem- onstrated that the acoustic signaling in Neotropical and Palaeo- tropical Pseudophyllinae is highly variable owing to different pre- dation pressures in different parts of the world. Likewise, it is also plausible that allometric relationships between sound generator characters and body size can differ among taxonomically related but geographically distant species. Therefore, expanding the in- vestigation of allometry in sound generator characters to lesser- known species may reveal new insights and, consequently, provide a more comprehensive understanding of the evolutionary patterns related to these sound generator characters. Here, the allometric relationships between sound generator characters and body size of a Palaeotropical katydid species from the tribe Copiphorini Karny, 1912 is examined, specifically from the genus Euconocephalus Karny, 1907. Very little is known, apart from a few anecdotal observations, about the katydids from this region (e.g., Tan 2011, 2020, Tiwari and Diwakar 2019). In comparison, Neotropical Copiphorini have been used extensively as study subjects in various studies on acoustic communication (e.g., Montealegre-Z and Mason 2005, Montealegre-Z and Postles 2010, Sarria-S et al. 2016, Celiker et al. 2020). These also include Neoconocephalus Karny, 1907, a genus very similar morphologically to Euconocephalus (e.g., Counter Jr 1977, Schul and Patterson 2003, Deily and Schul 2004). Building up information about acoustic communication in Euconocephalus, including examining their allometry, may eventually allow for comparative inference between species from the Neotropics and Palaeotropics. For this study, Euconocephalus pallidus (Redtenbacher, 1891) was collected, as the species is a relatively large katydid with well-developed sound generator characters suitable for studying allometry with body size. Being the most abundant and widely distributed Euconocephalus from Singapore and highly adaptable to both urban and peri-urban habitats (Tan 2011, 2020), E. pallidus has the potential to be an important model species to examine acoustic communication of katydids in the context of urbanization. The following questions were investigated: (1) What is the relationship between body size and sound generator characters (both stridulatory structures and mirror)? (2) What is the relationship between the different sound generator characters on different tegmina (e.g., stridulatory file length on the left tegmen vs. mirror area on the right tegmen)? And if, as predicted, these relationships are significant, (3) can their isometric or hyperallometric relationships allow for inference about the selection pressures acting on these sound generator organs? By using a similar methodology and addressing similar questions as previous species-targeted studies (see Anichini et al. 2017, Rebrina et al. 2020), the aim was to also examine how generalizable the patterns observed in Poecilimon are in the taxonomically more distant E. pallidus. M.K. TAN Materials and methods Study subject.—Euconocephalus pallidus inhabits open grassland and is among the largest orthopterans and best fliers from this habitat (Tan 2011, 2020, Tiwari and Diwakar 2019). At night, males pro- duce a distinct loud buzz for a substantially long duration. The dominant frequency of the calls is around 12 kHz (Tan 2020). Multiple males have been observed to call concurrently (Tan 2011). Sampling.—Between 6 February and 2 April 2019, 29 adult males were collected from an open grassland in Singapore (1.34279N, 103.87751E) known formerly as Bidadari Cemetery. The site has since been cleared for residential development. The katydids were identified using a key in Tan (2011). The katydids were euthanized by freezing, dried and pinned, and subsequently deposited in the Zoo- logical Reference Collection of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore. Collections were carried out from this single site within a short period of time, which minimizes potential confound- ing effects of population, generational, and temporal differences. Measurement of body size and sound generator characters.—All measurements were done using ImageJ 1.51j8 (Wayne Rasband, Research Services Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA) following the approach in Tan et al. (2020). Fig. 1. Measurements of body size and sound generator characters. A. Male habitus in dorsal view; B. Stridulatory file on the left tegmen in ventral view, scale bar = 0.5 mm; C. Mirror area on the right teg- men in dorsal view, scale bar = 1.0 mm. PronL = pronotum length, TL = tegmen length, FileL = file length, ThD = teeth density, ThW = tooth width, d = length of 10 teeth in the middle region of the file. JOURNAL OF ORTHOPTERA RESEARCH 2022, 31(2) MLK. Pronotum length (PronL), measured between the middle of the anterior margin and that of the posterior margin (Fig. 1A), was used as a proxy for body size (Montealegre-Z 2009). To measure the PronL and tegmen length (TL), the dried-pinned specimens were photographed using a Canon EOS 700D digital SLR camera with a Canon EF 100 mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens (Fig. 1A). Five sound generator characters were examined: TL; stridulatory file length (FileL), tooth width (ThW), and teeth density (ThD) on the left tegmen; and mirror area (MA) on the right tegmen. Meas- urements of these traits follow those of Rebrina et al. (2020). To measure the sound generator characters, the tegmina were dissected and the stridulatory areas on both left and right tegmen were pho- tographed using the dSLR camera with a Canon MP-E 65 mm f/2.8 USM (1-5x) lens. The FileL was measured as the total length of the stridulatory file on the ventral side of the left tegmen (Fig. 1B). This was done by connecting the posterior ends of the cusp of each tooth of all the visible teeth using the ‘segmented line’ function in ImageJ. The ThW was determined by obtaining the average tooth width of the teeth in the middle region of the file. The middle region of the file was defined as the central tooth on the file plus five teeth to the basal end and four to the anal end (Fig. 1B). Tooth width was measured between the posterior ends of the cusp of the tooth. The ThD was cal- culated as the ratio of the 10 teeth previously chosen to the length of the middle region of the file (measured along the edge of the tooth) (Fig. 1B). The MA on the right tegmen was measured using the ‘poly- gon selection’ function in ImageJ to connect the inner margin of the vein surrounding the membrane making up the mirror (Fig. 1C). Analysis All statistical analyses were done using R software version 4.1.0 (R Core Team 2019). Prior to modeling, all traits were log _,- transformed to normalize the distribution and reduce heterosce- dasticity (Packard et al. 2011). To examine the allometric scaling of sound generator characters with body size, the approach used = © © al ps IN = ‘= oO E E ate 2 2 © => ¢ ark: a 8 | — 8 2 eT 8 iQ & S 0.86 0.88 0.90 0.92 0.94 log PronL (log mm) oO yp o i ? E 9 == Seer 8 a < & = = 0 D 8 8 ae: aie ite) o 0.86 0.88 0.90 0.92 0.94 log PronL (log mm) 0.86 0.88 0.90 0.92 0.94 log PronL (log mm) TAN 193 by Anichini et al. (2017) and Rebrina et al. (2020) was adopted: a standardized major axis (SMA) regression was fitted for each sound generator character using the ‘smatr’ R package (Warton et al. 2012), with the PronL as a fixed effect. SMA regression is preferred over ordinary least square (OLS) regressions owing to the lower expected error of the former (Warton et al. 2006, Smith 2009). Moreover, SMA is preferred because both the sound genera- tor characters and body size have similar levels of error as a result of the measurements being collected using the same method and having similar magnitudes (Warton et al. 2006, Smith 009). The coefficient of determination, R?, was reported as a measure of the strength of regressions (Kasuya 2019). Effect sizes were inter- preted as high (R? > 0.25), medium (R* > 0.09), or low (R? > 0.01) (Cohen 1992). To test for significant difference between the scaling slope and isometry for each sound generator character, the ‘slope. test’ function of the ‘smatr’ package was used. ‘Slope = 1’ was used when a one-dimensional character (e.g., TL, FileL, ThW, and ThD) was scaled with body size (PronL, also one-dimensional). For MA, ‘slope = 2’ was used since the (two-dimensional) surface area of the mirror increases as a square of body length. This is to account for the assumption that a body grows equally in all three dimen- sions, i.e., that structure surface area should grow as a square of body length (Hirst et al. 2017, Rebrina et al. 2020). Results The average and range (minimum to maximum) of each sound generator character of the 29 males were as follows: PronL = 7.8 mm (7.0-8.7 mm); TL = 40.3 mm (35.4-44.5 mm); FileL = 1.8 mm (1.6-2.0 mm); ThW = 0.12 mm (0.07-0.14 mm); ThD = 39.4 mm’ (29.7-49.0 mm"); MA = 4.4 mm? (3.7-5.0 mm’). All sound generator characters exhibited significant correla- tions with PronL (Fig. 2), with strong effect sizes (i.e., R’? of the SMA models ranging from 0.3 to 0.5, except for ThD) (Table 1). With the exception of ThD, the remaining sound generator log ThW (log mm) 0.86 0.88 0.90 0.92 0.94 log PronL (log mm) 0.86 0.88 0.90 0.92 0.94 log PronL (log mm) Fig. 2. Relationships between the five sound generator characters with pronotum length (PronL) as body size based on SMA A. Tegmen length; B. Stridulatory file length; C. Tooth width; D. Teeth density; E. Mirror area. All traits were log-transformed. The thicker lines indicate hyperallometric relationships, and the thinner lines indicate isometric relationships. JOURNAL OF ORTHOPTERA RESEARCH 2022, 31(2) 194 foe) N =— * — Ee a? = & £ 8 8 => wt ~— 1 N = 2 9 <= re ke D D 2 2 fo) N fo) 0.62 0.66 log MA (log mm2) log MA (log mm2) log ThD (log mm-1) 0.66 0.62 log MA (log mm2) Fig. 3. Relationships between the sound generator characters on the left tegmen with mirror area (MA) on the right tegmen based on SMA A. Stridulatory file length; B. Tooth width; C. Teeth density. All traits were log,,-transformed. The dotted lines indicate non- significant relationships, and the thinner lines indicate isometric relationships. Table 1. Summary of the allometric analysis using SMA of the sound generator characters with pronotum length (PronL) as a proxy for body size and of the sound generator characters on the left tegmen with mirror area (MA). All traits were log, transformed. Slope ,,,, refers to the estimate of the SMA model. CI = confidence interval of the slope; R? = coefficient of determi- nation of the model. P refers to the p-value of the correlation; P sma refers to the p-value from the slope test. Asterisks represent significant effects: *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001. log,,-Trait Slope ,.,, 95% CI R P Slope test Pee PronL as a proxy for body size TL 0.98 [0.74, 1.29] 0.50 <0.001 *** 1 0.878 FileL 1.10 [0.83, 1.44] 0.50 <0.001 *** 1 0.509 Thw 2.71 [2.00, 3.68] 0.39 <0.001 *** 1 <0.001 *** ThD -2.44 [-3.47, -1.72] 0.18 0.022 * -1 <0.001 *** MA 1.63 [1.18, 2.26] 0.29 0.002 ** 2 0.211 Mirror area (MA) FileL 0.67 [0.47,0.96] 0.15 0.036 * % 0.101 Thw 1.67 [1.15, 2.42] 0.07 0.17 ThD -1.50 [-2.19, -1.03] 0.04 0.31 characters correlated positively with PronL. Furthermore, there was strong evidence of ThW and ThD scaling hyperallometrically with PronL: ThW increased hyperallometrically about 2.7 times faster than PronL, whereas ThD decreased hyperallometrically about 2.4 times faster than PronL (Table 1). There was very lit- tle evidence of TL and FileL scaling more than slope = 1 with PronL, indicating that these characters scale isometrically (Table 1). Likewise, there was also very little evidence of MA scaling more than slope = 2 with PronL, indicating that MA also scales isometrically (Table 1). FileL exhibited significant correlation with MA (Fig. 3), with moderate effect size (i.e., R? of the SMA models = 0.15) (Table 1). However, there was very little evidence of FileL scaling more than slope = 12 with MA. ThW and ThD did not correlate significantly with MA (Fig. 3, Table 1). Discussion In the investigated paleotropical katydid, there was significant hyperallometric scaling of tooth width and teeth density with pro- notum length. Mainly, larger males of E. pallidus bear dispropor- tionately broader teeth and have disproportionately less densely arranged teeth. The rest of the sound-producing characters scaled isometrically with body size. Specifically, larger E. pallidus males were found to bear significantly longer tegmina and stridulatory file and larger mirror than smaller males. These results corrobo- rate previous studies showing the influence of male body size on sound generator characters in other katydids, including a com- parative study of 38 species by Montealegre-Z (2009) and species- based studies of Poecilimon (Anichini et al. 2017, Rebrina et al. 2020). ThW and ThD exhibited hyperallometric scaling with body size, which has also been reported in Poecilimon (Anichini et al. 2017, Rebrina et al. 2020). One possible explanation is that these traits are subjected to positive sexual selection (Bonduriansky 2007) and may be crucial for aggressive male-male competition or as an exhibition of male quality (Eberhard et al. 2018, Rod- riguez and Eberhard 2019). The striking of teeth against the scrape can cause wear and tear to the teeth (damage or loss) (Hartley and Stephen 1989). A possible hypothesis is that, since larger teeth are probably more resistant to age-related abrasion, males with larger teeth (i.e., larger ThW and lower ThD to accommodate larg- er teeth) are more likely to produce calls with signal properties that are recognized and/or preferred by the females over a longer period of their adult life span (Ritchie et al. 1995, Anichini et al. 2017). This could be true for Euconocephalus because males pro- duce a continuous buzzing call over long durations. The continu- ous striking of teeth in such call types can lead to the teeth be- ing more susceptible to wear and tear than katydids that produce shorter echemes. The sound generator characters FileL and MA exhibited iso- metric scaling. This is perhaps indicative of stabilizing selection driven by their functions (Bennet-Clark 1998, Anichini et al. 2017). Specifically, FileL and MA are important morphological determinants of the carrier frequency that females tend to rely on for recognizing conspecific males, in which longer FileL and larger MA tend to scale negatively with carrier frequency in katy- dids (Morris et al. 1994, Montealegre-Z 2009, Montealegre-Z et al. 2017, Rodriguez and Eberhard 2019). This also implies that the variations in FileL and MA within a species should correlate with the normal distribution of wing resonance and carrier fre- quency to ensure conspecific recognition. Therefore, FileL and MA are probably less likely to be subjected to positive sexual selection. However, in Poecilimon, MA scaled hyperallometrically with body size and was postulated to be under positive sexual selection facilitated by female preference for louder signals (Rebrina et al. 2020), the mirror structure also being important for the amplifica- tion of sound (Morris and Pipher 1967, Bailey 1970, Chivers et al. 2017). The same cannot be said for E. pallidus, because whether the mirror structure is under sexual selection would be out of the scope of this paper when data on the acoustics and female prefer- JOURNAL OF ORTHOPTERA RESEARCH 2022, 31(2) M.K. TAN ence of E. pallidus were not available. Nonetheless, this illustrates how the scaling of sound generator characters with body size is not always generalizable. Lastly, TL scaled isometrically with body size in the macropter- ous E. pallidus because the wings of this species are likely to be more important for flight. This species was observed in Singapore to call on tree canopies along streets, suggesting that they can fly and disperse over long distances along green corridors (Tan 2011). A plausible explanation for the positive coupling of TL and body size may be associated with the correlated growth of TL and body size during development, and consequently, the TL becoming fixed in the adult after the final molt (Rebrina et al. 2020). A larger male, therefore, probably has longer wings to facilitate effective flight. Unfortunately, the examination of the relationships between the sound generator characters, body size, and acoustic signal properties (see Montealegre-Z 2009, Montealegre-Z et al. 2017) was not possible in this study, as acoustic data were unavailable. As a result, inferences about female preference in E. pallidus are only speculative and require further testing. Nonetheless, this study provides the basis for further studies into acoustic communication in E. pallidus and Southeast Asia Copiphorini. Future studies examining the allometric relationships between sound generator characters and body size among different populations of E. pallidus-from urban and peri-urban habitats— can provide insights into the microevolution of these characters. 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