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Table 1 Summary of playbacks. Details of origin and frequency of stimuli used in live recording and artificial playback experiments

From: Size, sounds and sex: interactions between body size and harmonic convergence signals determine mating success in Aedes aegypti

Live recording: female playbacks to males

1

Low diet female

2

High diet female

3

Low diet female

4

High diet female

Live recording: male playback to females

1

High diet male

2

Low diet male

3

High diet male

4

Low diet male

Artificial playbacks: fundamental tones played back to males (playback included this fundamental plus the next 3 harmonics)

R1

400, 430, 460 Hz

R2

400, 430, 460, 480 Hz

R3

400, 430, 460, 480, 515, 550 Hz