We studied Aphrodes makarovi male and female behaviour in a trio situation (two males and one female). Our results showed that on male mating success male–male competition had great impact. Females were replying equally to both males and that they mated with the first male to locate them. Males were eavesdropping to male–female duet maintained by the rival, besides they were emitting masking signals to overlap the latter part of the female reply. Males that mated with the female were better at exploiting female replies to the rival’s advertisement calls. Moreover they received less overlapped female replies.
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