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Eberhard — Courtship in Himantigera 
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Fig. 1. Initiation of tapping movements of front legs of a copulating male H. 
nigrifemorata seen from the side and slightly above (drawn from tracings from a 
video recording). Numbers and dotted lines indicate number of frames (30 frames/ 
sec.) after starting leg position (solid lines) and positions of legs at these times. Both 
legs were raised simultaneously until they were over the male’s head (frame 1 1); then, 
after a brief pause, the right leg was brought further back (frames 13-19), then tapped 
briskly downward (frame 21). It was not possible to determine from the videotape 
whether the tarsus contacted the female’s arista. 
