Homoeogryllus cf. reticulatus (Fabricius, 1781)

Zurawlew, Przemyslaw, Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Szymanski, Pawel & Herman, David Billy, 2020, New records of exotic crickets in Europe: Homoeogryllus species (Orthoptera: Gryllidea: Phalangopsidae), Journal of Orthoptera Research 29 (2), pp. 121-125 : 121

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.29.50387

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scientific name

Homoeogryllus cf. reticulatus (Fabricius, 1781)
status

 

Homoeogryllus cf. reticulatus (Fabricius, 1781) Figs 1 View Figure 1 , 2 View Figure 2

Observed material.-

Belgium, Gent, 8 VIII 2010, 1♂, D. B. Herman leg., specimen not collected, identified based on its calling song.

Stridulation description .-

Only two stridulation series were recorded (Fig. 2a View Figure 2 ). Each consisted of two fast introductory creaks separated by 30 ms pause and a number of chatter syllables with fundamental frequency ca. 4 kHz and harmonics (Fig. 2c View Figure 2 ). Duration of the first stridulation with 8 syllables (Fig. 2b View Figure 2 ) was 4.1 s and that with 5 syllables was 2.2 s. Both stridulations were separated by a 7.6 s pause.

Remark.-

The specimen was found in a crack of a wall near a port where the wood of tropical trees is stored. The species has been recorded in Egypt, Chad, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and Democratic Republic of Congo (= Zaire) ( Desutter 1985, Gorochov 2018).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Gryllidea

Genus

Homoeogryllus