Dociostaurus (Dociostaurus) maroccanus (Thunberg, 1815)

Grylllus macroccanus Thunberg, 1815: 244.

Distribution in the Palaearctic region: Europe, North and North Eastern Africa, Canary Islands, Caucasia, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Corsica, Middle Asia, Sicilia and Sardinia (Bei-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951; Soltani 1978; Mol & Zeybekoğlu 2013).

Distribution in the Turkish Thrace: EDİRNE: Süloğlu Saksağandere Forest, 24.VI.1969, 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; 23.VI.1970, 1 ♀; KIRKLARELİ: Lüleburgaz; Kızılcıkdere Village pasture 20.VI.1967, 3 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀; 23.VI.1969, 16 ♂♂, 41 ♀♀; TEKİRDAĞ: Şarköy; (Karabağ 1958; Karabağ et al. 1971, 1974).

Material examined: KIRKLARELİ: Kırklareli-Kofçaz road, 514m a.s.l., N: 41°54.430’ E: 27°10.714’, 31.VII.2013, 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Bayram; Kofçaz, Kofçaz exit, 604m a.s.l., N: 41°57.683’ E: 27°09.348’, 31.VII.2013, 1 ♂, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Bayram ; TEKİRDAĞ: Değirmenaltı Campus, around Science Faculty, 50m a.s.l., 14. VI.2011, 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, leg.: D. Şirin (Calling song recorded from three males at 29 ˚C in the field by D. Şirin) ; EDİRNE: Keşan-Çanakkale road, 3 km after Yerli Su, Koru Mountain, 260m a.s.l., N: 40°42.857’ E: 26°45.186’, 1 ♂, 18.VI.2012, leg.: D. Şirin, N. Ş. Odabaşı & L. Can (Fig. 5 A).

Description of song: The male calling song consists of a polysyllabic phrase (Fig. 5 B). The calling song lasts mostly for 4–14 s. Syllables can be identified as sharpener, in high density, and numbers vary from 9 to 42 in a phrase (Fig. 5 B). The duration of syllables changes between 50 and 80 ms Each syllable generally consists of 2–3 pulses in different amplitude modulation and its duration lasts for 6–8 ms (Fig. 5 C). Most of the middle pulse is in high amplitude than the rest in the syllable.

Published song data, used for comparison: Ragge & Reynolds 1998; Savitsky 2007.