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
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Horvat, Laslo
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Chobanov, Dragan
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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
decticiformis
(Stshelkanovtzev, 1914)
—song
type
I—Fig. 7C1.
Localities
:
Kazakhstan
, ENE
Shatpe
, stony-clay semidesert,
160–190 m
a.s.l.
,
N 44°13'
,
E 52°05'
,
12.vi.2016
, one male, leg.
D. Chobanov
.
Kazakhstan
,
N Zharmysh
, stony canyon with semidesert vegetation,
215 m
a.s.l.
,
N 44°08'
,
E 53°16'
,
14.vi.2016
, one male, leg.
D. Chobanov
.
The calling song consists of long sequences (up to 1 min recorded) of pairs of syllables (di-syllabic echemes). Occasionally several syllables follow directly one after another (
Fig. 7
C1).
(see also song type II)