Dociostaurus (Kazakia) brevicollis (Eversmann, 1848)

Mol, Abbas, 2013, New species and new song record of the genus Dociostaurus Fieber, 1853 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae) from Southern Anatolia, Turkey, Zootaxa 3683 (4), pp. 486-500 : 493-496

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).

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).

Calling song Taxon (Place) Individual N—number of individual, m—Mean; sd—Standard deviation; n—Number of the analyzed characters.

Figures

FIGURE 1. The localities visited to collect Dociostaurus members in Anatolia [open shapes represent the location of respect species from literatures, filled shapes represent the location of studied samples from this study and different Museum or Collection (see Table 1)], circles represent the records of D. brevicollis; triangle represent the record of D. cappadocicus; quadrangle represent the records of D. icconium sp. n..

FIGURE 10. Complete phrase of male calling songs of (A) D. icconium sp. n., (B) D. brevicollis and (C) D. cappadocicus.

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.