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- Tymbal abstract "Tymbal (or timbal) is a term for a corrugated exoskeletal structure used to produce sounds in insects. In male cicadas, the tymbals are membranes in the abdomen, responsible for the characteristic sound produced by the insect. In tiger moths, the tymbals are modified regions of the thorax, and produce high-frequency clicks.The paired tymbals of a cicada are located on the sides of the abdominal base. The "singing" of a cicada is not stridulation as in many other familiar sound-producing insects like crickets (where one structure is rubbed against another): the tymbals are regions of the exoskeleton that are modified to form a complex membrane with thin, membranous portions and thickened "ribs". These membranes vibrate rapidly, and enlarged chambers derived from the tracheae make the cicada's body serve as a resonance chamber, greatly amplifying the sound. Some cicadas produce sounds louder than 106 dB (SPL), among the loudest of all insect-produced sounds. They modulate their noise by positioning their abdomens toward or away from the substrate. The tymbals of a tiger moth are specialized regions on the metathoracic episterna, normally corrugated such that sound is produced when the entire tymbal surface is buckled by muscular contraction and then released, producing a series of extremely rapid "clicks" as the corrugations flex back into place. These sounds are only occasionally audible to humans, and are used in both acoustic aposematism (the moths are advertising to bats that they are toxic), and as mating signals. A recent study demonstrates that these sounds are used by some moths to "jam" the sonar of moth-eating bats.".
- Tymbal soundRecording Tymbal__1.
- Tymbal thumbnail EB1911_cicada_tymbal_structure.png?width=300.
- Tymbal wikiPageExternalLink artlinks.
- Tymbal wikiPageID "20639783".
- Tymbal wikiPageLength "3339".
- Tymbal wikiPageOutDegree "21".
- Tymbal wikiPageRevisionID "677621685".
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Abdomen.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Aposematism.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Category:Insect_anatomy.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Cicada.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Cricket_(insect).
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink DB_(SPL).
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Echolocation_jamming.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Echolocation_jamming_in_animals.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Episternum.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Exoskeleton.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Interclavicle.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Invertebrate_trachea.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Lower_Hutt.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Metathorax.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink New_Zealand.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Ogg.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Resonance.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Sound.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Stridulation.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Thorax.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Tiger_moth.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Timbal.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Timbau.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink Trachea.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLink File:EB1911_cicada_tymbal_structure.png.
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLinkText "Tymbal".
- Tymbal wikiPageWikiLinkText "tymbal".
- Tymbal description "The sound of a cicada in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, recorded in mid-February, 2006".
- Tymbal filename "New_Zealand_cicada_song.ogg".
- Tymbal format Ogg.
- Tymbal hasPhotoCollection Tymbal.
- Tymbal title "Cicada song".
- Tymbal wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Dablink.
- Tymbal wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Listen.
- Tymbal wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Tymbal subject Category:Insect_anatomy.
- Tymbal hypernym Term.
- Tymbal type Article.
- Tymbal type Article.
- Tymbal type Thing.
- Tymbal comment "Tymbal (or timbal) is a term for a corrugated exoskeletal structure used to produce sounds in insects. In male cicadas, the tymbals are membranes in the abdomen, responsible for the characteristic sound produced by the insect. In tiger moths, the tymbals are modified regions of the thorax, and produce high-frequency clicks.The paired tymbals of a cicada are located on the sides of the abdominal base.".
- Tymbal label "Tymbal".
- Tymbal sameAs دهلک.
- Tymbal sameAs m.02x320f.
- Tymbal sameAs Q7860352.
- Tymbal sameAs Q7860352.
- Tymbal wasDerivedFrom Tymbal?oldid=677621685.
- Tymbal depiction EB1911_cicada_tymbal_structure.png.
- Tymbal isPrimaryTopicOf Tymbal.