Dociostaurus maroccanus
Creators
Description
1. Dociostaurus maroccanus (Thunberg, 1815)
Figs. 2–6
Distribution. Southern regions of Western Europe, North Africa, Southern part of European Russia, the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Central Asia.
Locality. 2. Northern shore of the Tortkul’ Reservoir ca. 12 km West of Batken, saline meadow, 8. VII. 2014. Signals of 2 ♂ recorded on disk at 42o C.
References to song. Ragge & Reynolds (1998): recordings from Western Europe; Bukhvalova & Vedenina (1998): recordings from the Crimea; Savitsky (2007): recordings from the North Caucasus.
Song. The calling song is an echeme of about 4–9 syllables following each other with a period of 0.7–1 s (Fig. 2). Each syllable consists of 4–5 very brief discrete fragments separated by gaps and following each other with a period of 8–10 ms in our recordings from Central Asia (Figs. 3–6).
Comparative notes. The calling songs of males from Southern Kyrgyzstan are quite similar to the songs recorded from Europe, the Crimea, and the North Caucasus.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2014-07-08
- Family
- Baissogryllidae
- Genus
- Dociostaurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Thunberg
- Species
- maroccanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-07-08
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dociostaurus maroccanus (Thunberg, 1815) sec. Tishechkin, 2017
References
- Ragge, D. R. & Reynolds, W. J. (1998) The songs of the grasshoppers and crickets of Western Europe. Harley Books in association with The Natural History Museum, London, 591 pp.
- Bukhvalova, M. A. & Vedenina, V. Yu. (1998) Contributions to the study of acoustic signals of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Gomphocerinae) from Russia and adjacent countries. I. New recordings of the сalling songs of grasshoppers from Russia and adjacent countries. Russian Entomological Journal, 7 (3 - 4), 109 - 125.