Arcyptera (Pararcyptera) microptera subsp. microptera microptera (Fischer von Waldheim 1833
Description
Arcyptera (Pararcyptera) microptera microptera (Fischer von Waldheim, 1833)
Oedipoda microptera Fischer von Waldheim, 1833: 384.
Pararcyptera microptera: Bei-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951: 431 (54).
Distribution in the Palaearctic region: It has a wide range from Europe to Siberia (Ragge & Reynolds 1998; Holusa 2011).
Distribution in the Turkish Thrace: First record for the study area.
Material examined: Tekirdağ, Ganos Mountain, (between Radar – Hoşköy) 705m a.s.l N: 40°45.778’ E: 27°16.108’, 23.VI.2014, 4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Demir (Fig. 3 A). Calling song recorded from two males at 30 ˚C in laboratory conditions by D. Şirin and E. Demir.
Description of song: The male calling song consists of a phrase which includes two different parts and its durations last for 1.5– 2.5 s. A phrase usually starts with separated syllables (Part A), continues with grouped syllable (Part B), and ends with one or two click like pulse. Part A includes 5–16 separate syllables usually with regular gaps (intervals of 93–182 ms) (Figure 3 B), whereas Part B contains 4–8 adjacent syllables which have no intervals. The duration of syllable in Part A varies between 6 and15 ms, whereas the syllables of Part B lasting for 14–16 ms (Figs. 3 B–C).
Published song data, used for comparison: Ragge & Reynolds 1998.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2014-06-23
- Family
- Baissogryllidae
- Genus
- Arcyptera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- microptera (Fischer von Waldheim
- Species
- microptera
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-06-23
- Taxonomic concept label
- Arcyptera (Pararcyptera) microptera subsp. microptera von, 1833 sec. Şirin, Mol, Taylan, Demýr & Kizilocak, 2017
References
- Bei-Bienko, G. J. & Mistshenko, L. L. (1951) Locust and grasshoppers of the USSR and adjacent countries. Vol. II. Academy of Science USSR Publications, Moscow-Leningrad, 291 pp.
- Ragge, D. R. & Reynolds, W. J. (1998) The songs of the grasshoppers and crickets of Western Europe. Harley Books, London, 221 pp.
- Holusa, J. (2011) Arcyptera microptera (Fischer de Waldheim, 1833) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) has become extinct in the Czech Republic. Turkish Journal of Zoology, 35 (2), 287 - 291.