New species and new song record of the genus Dociostaurus Fieber, 1853 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae) from Southern Anatolia, Turkey
Author
Mol, Abbas
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Zootaxa
2013
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3683.4.9
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Dociostaurus (Kazakia) brevicollis
(Eversmann, 1848)
Oedipoda brevicollis
Eversmann, 1848
. Orth. Ross. 11.
Material examined
. (see
Table 1
).
Morphological description.
See
Harz (1975)
.
Song
(Original data). Generally calling song of
D. brevicollis
consists of a long phrase (
Fig. 10
B). This phrase consists of irregular number of syllables and ranged from 9 to 44. Each syllable lasting about 77–187 ms (
Fig. 12
A) and consist of 2–4 usually 3 pulses. Amplitude of pulses in the syllable increases from first to last one. Duration of the pulses shows the similarity according to where they are in the syllable. First pulse is the shorter one in the syllable and generally lasting 6–7 ms. Second pulse is longer than first one and lasting 8–10 ms. Third pulse is the longer than first and second pulses. This pulse generally lasting 11 ms however duration of it ranged from 9 to 13 ms in the population. Although pulses duration is changing according to location in the syllable, duration of the gaps in the pulses is not different, more stable and these gaps lasting about 10–14 ms (
Fig. 12
B).
FIGURE 8.
Male epifallus of (A)
D. icconium
sp. n.
, (B)
D. brevicollis
and (C)
D. cappadocicus
.
FIGURE 9.
Boxplots for the number of stridulatory pegs counted from members of the
D. icconium
sp. n.
,
D. brevicollis
and
D. cappadocicus
.
FIGURE 10.
Complete phrase of male calling songs of (A)
D. icconium
sp. n.
, (B)
D. brevicollis
and (C)
D. cappadocicus
.
Distribution
. The range of this species covers mainly the southern regions of Western Europe,
Ukraine
, Caucasia,
Iran
,
Kazakhstan
, Kirghizstan, European part of
Russia
, Western Asia, North Africa and
Turkey
. In
Anatolia
, it is sometimes present, particularly in altitudes of
1000 m
or higher.
Dociostaurus brevicollis
seems to be the most widespread species of this genus in
Anatolia
(
Fig. 1
) (
Bei-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951
;
Karabaġ 1958
;
Harz 1975
;
Demirsoy 1977
;
Soltani 1978
).
FIGURES 11–13.
Male calling song (A—a part of syllable periods, B—one complete syllable), 11—
D. icconium
sp. n.
, 12—
D. brevicollis
and 13—
D. cappadocicus
.
TABLE 4.
Temporal parameters measured from male calling songs of
D. icconium
sp. n.
,
D. cappadocicus
and
D. brevicollis
populations.
Calling song
Taxon
(Place) Individual N—number of individual, m—Mean; sd—Standard deviation; n—Number of the analyzed characters.