Saga natoliae Serville, 1838

Şirin, Deniz, Taylan, Mehmet Sait, Sevgili, Hasan & Mol, Abbas, 2019, Bioacoustics review of Anatolian species of the predatory bush-cricket genus Saga (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Saginae) with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 4664 (1), pp. 83-102 : 86-87

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.1.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5610198

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scientific name

Saga natoliae Serville, 1838
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Saga natoliae Serville, 1838 View in CoL

Distribution: This species was recorded from Balkans, Anatolia, Syria and Lebanon ( Krauss 1879; Kirby 1906; Kaltenbach 1964, 1967). The distribution of species in Anatolia has intensified mostly in Aegean and Mediterranean parts ( Figure 2A View FIGURE 2 ) of it ( Ramme 1951; Karabağ 1958; Kaltenbach 1967; Karabağ et al. 1971, 1974; Önder et al. 1999; Sevgili et al. 2011; Tazegül & Önder 2012; Heller 2016; Mol et al. 2016).

Song recording: Male specimens collected from Turkey; İzmir, Aydın-İzmir highway to Torbalı, roadside, N: 38°14.05’, E: 27°22.18’, 90 m, 29. VI.2018, leg.: D. Şirin, M.S. Taylan and calling songs are recorded from one male at 28 ˚C in the room conditions (by M.S. Taylan), Antalya, Akseki-Bozkır road, Ahırlı location, N 36°11.57’, E 036°06.26’, 1376 m, 23.VII.2017, leg.: H. Sevgili, D. Şirin, A. Mol & M.S. Taylan and the calling songs were recorded from one male at 26 ˚C in the room conditions (by D. Şirin), Antalya, Termessos, Güllükdağı, N 36°59.03’, E 030°27.47’, 1036 m, 04.VII.2015, leg.: D. Şirin, A. Mol & M.S. Taylan and the calling songs are recorded from one male at 27 ˚C in the room conditions (by D. Şirin).

Description of song: A t otal of 15 records from six males were examined. The calling song consists of phrases ( Figure 2B View FIGURE 2 ) with irregular intervals. Phrases usually reach its maximum intensity between 1/4 and 1/3 of the phrase; however, in some of the phrases, there is often a more gradual crescendo roughly up to half of the phrase. Phrase durations vary between 2.29 and 4.18 s (3.21 ± 0.18), and the phrase comprises between 83 and 131 syllables (108.6 ± 5.56). The phrase generally begins with a characteristic isolated hemisyllable, which has variable amplitude and durations within intra and inter-populations of species (Termessos: 3–18 ms; Torbalı: 26–31 ms and Ahırlı: 15–23 ms) ( Figure 2C View FIGURE 2 ). The isolated loud hemisyllable is followed by contiguous/ordinary syllables of phrase with a variable gap in duration within intra and inter-populations of species (Termessos: 25–276 ms; Torbalı: 24–28 ms and Ahırlı: 12–124 ms). Oscillographic analyses show that the syllable period duration varies between 25.01 and 46.47 ms (28.33 ± 1.83) and each syllable shows approximately a standard structure, which is formulated as soft opening hemisyllable + loud closing hemisyllable ( Figure 2D View FIGURE 2 ).

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

SubFamily

Saginae

Genus

Saga

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