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Tylopsis brevis Ragge 1964

Description

Tylopsis brevis Ragge, 1964

[B] CH 4951 ♂, CH 4952 ♀, [C] CH 4975 ♂

Following Ragge’s key (1964) the specimens were identified as T. brevis with type locality Volcan Nyamlagira in the Kivu region.

Song. The calling song of a male (not captured) was recorded in the field near Tshivanga [C] at night. Most often echemes containing four (rarely less) syllables were heard (Fig. 12), the interval between the first and second a little bit larger than during the others. However, a few long continuous syllable series (up to 12 s) with the same syllable interval of about 200 ms (13.5ºC) were also recorded. Each syllable consisted of few impulses similar as in Tylopsis lilifolia (Heller 1988).

The stridulatory file contains relatively few teeth (as in Tylopsis lilifolia; Heller 1988).

Notes

Published as part of Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Hemp, Claudia, Liu, Chunxiang & Volleth, Marianne, 2014, Taxonomic, bioacoustic and faunistic data on a collection of Tettigonioidea from Eastern Congo (Insecta: Orthoptera), pp. 343-376 in Zootaxa 3785 (3) on page 362, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/250508

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phaneropteridae
Genus
Tylopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ragge
Species
brevis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Tylopsis brevis Ragge, 1964 sec. Heller, Hemp, Liu & Volleth, 2014

References

  • Ragge, D. R. (1964) A revision of the genus Tylopsis Fieber (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Series 15, 297 - 322.
  • Heller, K. - G. (1988) Bioakustik der europaischen Laubheuschrecken. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, 358 pp.