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"A unitary sound normally produced by a single movement of the sound-producing apparatus. It may be monocyclic, as in the sound produced by the wing of some Drosophila species, or polycyclic as in the closing stridulatory wing stroke of crickets." [1]

Reference: [1] Ewing AW. Arthropod Bioacoustics: Neurobiology and Behaviour. Ithaca, New York: Comstock; 1989.

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