Euchorthippus declivus
Description
Euchorthippus declivus (Brisout de Barneville, 1848)
Acridium declivus Brisout de Barneville, 1848: 2 (6), 420.
Distribution in the Palaearctic region: South Western and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Turkey (Willemse 1985; Mol & Zeybekoğlu 2013).
Distribution in the Turkish Thrace: First record for the study area.
Material examined: KIRKLARELİ: Kırklareli-Kofçaz road, 514m a.s.l., N: 41°54.430’ E: 27°10.714’, 31.VII.2013, 14 ♂♂, 11 ♀♀, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Bayram (Fig. 11 A). Calling song recorded from two males at 27 ˚C in the laboratory conditions by D. Şirin.
Description of song: Euchorthippus declivus male calling songs usually consist of equally spaced polysyllabic phrases (Fig. 11 B). The calling song durations vary from 15 s to 2 min, depending on the number of phrases. Syllable numbers change from 5 to 7 in a phrase (Fig. 11 C). The duration of syllables changes between 60–74 ms (Fig. 11 D). A syllable comprises two different parts. Part A contains a long pulse (lower amplitude) and Part B includes 3–5 short pulses (higher amplitude), where the last pulse of Part A is the loudest one (Fig. 11 D)
Published song data, used for comparison: Ragge & Reynolds 1998.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2013-07-31
- Family
- Baissogryllidae
- Genus
- Euchorthippus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Brisout de Barneville
- Species
- declivus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-07-31
- Taxonomic concept label
- Euchorthippus declivus (de, 1848) sec. Şirin, Mol, Taylan, Demýr & Kizilocak, 2017
References
- Willemse, F. (1985) Fauna Graeciae II. A key to the Orthoptera Species of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Society, Athens, Greece, 288 pp.
- Mol, A. & Zeybekoglu, U. (2013) Distribution and taxonomy of Gomphocerinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae) grasshoppers in the Anatolian Black Sea Basin and checklist of Turkey subfamily fauna. Journal of the Entomological Research Society, 15 (2), 69 - 102.
- Ragge, D. R. & Reynolds, W. J. (1998) The songs of the grasshoppers and crickets of Western Europe. Harley Books, London, 221 pp.