New species and new song record of the genus Dociostaurus Fieber, 1853 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae) from Southern Anatolia, Turkey
Author
Mol, Abbas
text
Zootaxa
2013
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3683.4.9
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Dociostaurus (Stauronotulus) cappadocicus
(Azam, 1913)
Stauronotus crassiusculus
variety
cappadocicus
Azam. 1913
. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 219
Material examined
. (see
Table 1
)
Morphological description.
See
Ramme (1951)
and
Demirsoy 1977
.
Song
(Original data). Generally calling song of
D. cappadocicus
consists of a long phrase (
Fig. 10
C). This phrase consists of irregular number of syllables and ranged from 4 to 13. Each syllable lasting about 87–101 ms (
Fig. 13
A) and consist of 5–8 high amplitude pulses. All syllables in the phrase do not include gaps and from begin to end of syllables with noisy song in the background. Amplitude of high amplitude pulses in the syllable is increase from first to second or third one and decreases from middle to last one. Each pulse period in syllable is lasting about 4–7 ms (
Fig. 13
B) and there is no gap between the pulses.
Distribution
. This species was recorded from southern part of
Turkey
, especially on the range of Taurus Mountain (
Ramme 1951
;
Karabaġ 1958
;
Demirsoy 1977
;
Ünal 1997
).