Scientists believe that unlike the males of most species of moth, the male whistling moths of Nambung, Australia, call female moths to them by the use of acoustical signals, but not olfactory ones, and they attract their mates during the day, rather than at night.
by the use of acoustical signals, but not olfactory ones, and they attract
by the use of acoustical signals instead of using olfactory ones, and attracting
by using acoustical signals, not using olfactory ones, and by attracting
using acoustical signals, rather than olfactory ones, and attract
using acoustical signals, but not olfactory ones, and attracting
"instead of" is generally restricted to nouns.
"rather than" can be used for essentially any part of speech at all.
they moved stiffly rather than gracefully (adverbs)
they moved to the left rather than to the right (prepositional phrases)
the car was red rather than blue (adjectives)
i bought a car rather than a truck (nouns) <–– this is the only sentence here that would work with 'instead of'
he chose to leave rather than continue arguing (infinitives)
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