Apholidoptera pietschmanni (Ebner, 1912)

Sirin, Deniz, Taylan, Mehmet Sait & Mol, Abbas, 2014, First song descriptions of some Anatolian species of Tettigoniidae Krauss, 1902 (Orthoptera, Ensifera), ZooKeys 369, pp. 1-24 : 5

Apholidoptera pietschmanni (Ebner, 1912)

Distribution.

Turkey and Iraq (Figure 3a) ( Karabağ 1958, Sevgili and Çıplak 2000, Ünal 2006).

Song recording.

Male specimens collected from Turkey, Erzincan, Kemaliye, Ocak köyü, 39°08.732'N, 38°35'.296'E, 1485 m, 3.VII.2012 (by D. Şirin & A. Mol) and calling song recorded from one male at 32 °C in laboratory (by D. Şirin).

Description of song.

Eight records from one male were evaluated. The calling song consists of a series of regular phrases (Figure 3b) each of which lasting 138-168 ms (152 ± 0.01) and consisting of 3-5 (4.01 ± 0.37) syllables. Syllables generally consist two uneven parts (Figure 3c, 3d). The number of syllables in 100 ms is 2.5-3 (2.62 ± 0.02). The first syllable at the beginning of the phrase is quieter (lower amplitude) than other syllables (Figure 3c, 3d). Syllable duration varies between 17 and 36 ms (29.25 ± 4.15) with an interval of 0-13 ms (5.22 ± 1.78).