New data on the bush-cricket Montana medvedevi (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), critically endangered in Europe (EU 28), and a comparison of its song with all known song patterns within the genus
Author
Ivković, Slobodan
Author
Iorgu, Ștefan
Author
Horvat, Laslo
Author
Chobanov, Dragan
Author
Korsunovskaya, Olga
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Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
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Zootaxa
2017
4263
3
527
542
journal article
33072
10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.5
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Montana montana
(Kollar, 1833)
—
Figs. 7
E1, 7E2.
Nomenclatorial
remark.
The
name
Montana
montana milae
Adamović, 1967
is not available because the publication (
Adamović 1967
) does not contain anything which could be interpreted as a diagnosis required by Art. 13.1 of the
International Code
for
Zoological Nomenclature
(
ICZN
1999
).
Localities:
Austria
,
Burgenland
, Illmitz, 1973 (
Ragge & Reynolds 1998
)
.
Austria
,
Niederösterreich
,
Ebergassing
,
2008 and 2012
(
sic
dates as given by
Roesti & Keist 2009
)
.
Czech Republic
, Lanzhot, 2006 (
Kocarek
et al.
2013
).
Ukraine
, SE
Ukraine
,
Lugansky
reserve,
11.vi.1996
, leg.
A. Benediktov
(
2 males
).
In the calling song verses of 1–2 s duration often alternate with pauses of about 3–4 s. According to
Ragge & Reynolds (1998)
and sound files in
Roesti & Keist (2009)
the verses consist of sequences of disyllabic echemes with syllable repetition rates around 40 to 70 Hz and echeme repetition rates of 15 to 30 Hz (
Fig. 7
E1). In two other recordings the echeme structure of the song could not be identified (
Table 1
). However, animals from
Ukraine
obviously had a much lower syllable repetition rate. Their song did not show an echeme structure, but the syllable repetition rate agreed quite well with that of the echemes in the topotypical Central European populations (
Fig. 7
E2). The number of teeth in the stridulatory file did not differ between localities (
Fig. 6
B;
Table 1
).