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Tymbal
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.〔J.H. Fullard and B. Heller (1990) Functional Organization of the Arctiid Moth Tymbal (Insecta, Lepidoptera) Journal of Morphology 204: 57-65〕 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〔Surlykke, A., and L.A. Miller (1985) The influence of arctiid moth clicks on bat echolocation: Jamming or warning? J. Comp. Physiol. A 156: 831-843.〕), and as mating signals. A recent study 〔Aaron J. Corcoran, et al. (2009) Tiger Moth Jams Bat Sonar. Science 325: 325-327.〕 demonstrates that these sounds are used by some moths to "jam" the sonar of moth-eating bats.〔Fullard, J.H., M.B. Fenton, and J.A. Simmons (1979) Jamming bat echolocation: The clicks of arctiid moths. Can. J. Zool. 57: 647-649〕
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