Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa
Author
Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) desutter @ mnhn. fr
desutter@mnhn.fr
Author
Anso, Jérémy
Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) and Institut méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix-Marseille Université, UMR CNRS, IRD, UAPV, Centre IRD Nouméa, BP A 5, 98848 Nouméa Cedex, (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
Author
Jourdan, Hervé
Institut méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix-Marseille Université, UMR CNRS, IRD, UAPV, Centre IRD Nouméa, boîte postale A 5, 98848 Nouméa Cedex (Nouvelle-Calédonie) Published on 30 December 2016
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Zoosystema
2016
2016-12-30
38
4
405
452
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2016n4a1
journal article
10.5252/z2016n4a1
1638-9387
4578278
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9E796669-C345-42D6-B0F9-95288DB701EE
Oecanthus rufescens
Serville, 1839
(Fig. 16)
Oecanthus rufescens
Serville, 1839: 361
.
TYPE
LOCALITY. —
India
,
Bombay
.
RECORDED SPECIMENS. —
New Caledonia
, Mont Mou,
1 ♂
,
16.VII.2012
, by night, tall grass along trail, J. Anso & L. Desutter- Grandcolas (MNHN).
FIG. 15. — New Caledonian
Euscyrtinae Gorochov,1985
(
A
),
Oecanthinae Blanchard,1845
(
B
) and
Eneopterinae
Saussure,1874
(
C -F
) (
Gryllidae
):
A
,
Proturana
sp., from Sarramea, by day (Photo PG);
B
,
Oecanthus rufescens
Serville, 1839
, from Col des Roussettes, by night (Photo JA);
C
,
Cardiodactylus novaeguineae
(de Haan, 1842)
, from Lifou (Loyalty Islands), by night (Photo PG);
D
,
Agnotecous
sp., from Col de Mouirange, by day (Photo LDG);
E
,
Lebinthus lifouensis
Desutter- Grandcolas, 1997, from Lifou, by day (Photo PG);
F
,
Pixibinthus sonicus
Anso & Robillard, 2016
, from Col de la Madeleine, by day (Photo JA). Scale bars: 2 mm.
CALLING SONG. — Fig. 16. At 23.5°C, the calling song of
Oecanthus rufescens
consists of a long repetition of syllables (trill), with the following characteristics: syllable duration = 14.9 ± 0.3 ms; syllable period = 22.5 ± 1.6 ms; silence inter-syllable = 7.6 ± 1.6 ms; syllable duty cycle = 66.4 %; the dominant frequency is 3.3 kHz and correspond to the fundamental frequency (MNHN-SO-2016-19).