Saga puella Werner, 1901

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 : 88-89

Saga puella Werner, 1901

Distribution: This species is endemic to Anatolia ( Kaltenbach 1964, 1967). The distribution of species in Anatolia is diverse mostly in Aegean part ( Figure 5A ) of it ( Uvarov 1930, 1934; Ramme 1951: Karabağ 1958; Kaltenbach 1964, 1967; Önder et al. 1999; Tazegül & Önder 2012; Mol et al., 2016).

Song recording: Male specimens were collected from Turkey; İzmir, Selçuk, Şirince, near Mathematics Camp- ing Village area, N: 37°57.10, E 27°25.41, 350 m., 01.VII.2018, leg.: D. Sirin, M.S. Taylan, and the calling songs are recorded from one male at 30 ˚C in the room conditions (by D. Şirin), İzmir, Selçuk, around Efes (Ephesus) Ancient city, N: 37°56.40, E: 27°20.55, 130m., 01.VII.2018, leg.: D. Sirin, M.S. Taylan, and the calling songs are recorded from two males at 29 ˚C in the room conditions (by D. Şirin & M.S. Taylan).

Description of song: Totally, 13 records from three males were examined. The calling song consists of phrases ( Figure 5B ) with irregular intervals. Phrase durations vary between 0.58 and 1.16 s (1.00 ± 0.09), and each phrase contains 22–55 syllables (45.25 ± 4.16). The phrase generally begins with low amplitude first syllable, which is shorter than the ordinary syllables and lasts for 10.9–18.5 ms (13.84 ± 2.17). The phrase starts with 4–10 lower amplitudes syllables (generally corresponding to 1/4) and continues with a crescending sequence and reaches for the highest amplitude at the end of this part. The remaining syllables have quite similar amplitude ( Figure 5C ). The oscillographic analyses show that the ordinary syllable periods duration varies between 10.9 and 45.91 ms (21.71 ± 2.34), and each ordinary syllable shows a standard structure which is formulated as soft opening hemisyllable + loud closing hemisyllable ( Figure 5D ). The phrase ends with last hemisyllable, which has a longer duration than the previous syllables in phrase and its duration varies between 22.96–45.91 ms (31.17 ± 4.51).

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FIGURE 5. Distribution map (A) and male calling song of Saga puella (B—phrase series, C—two complete phrase and D—a group of syllables, black arrow is the hypothetic opening hemisyllable movement and grey arrow is the hypothetic closing hemisyllable movement).