Uromenus tobboganensis Nadig, 1994

MOROCCO, S of Ain Zora, N 34.59195, W 003.63099, 935 m a.s.l., 03 vi 2013, leg. Chobanov.

The nightly calling song consists of echemes with 4.2±1.2 (n=21) syllables (Fig. 2; syllable period 550±30 ms; SRR 1.8 Hz). In these syllables, a short opening hemisyllable (67±2 ms) is followed by a longer closing hemisyllable (310±18 ms) containing 55±5 impulses (Fig. 3), both having approximately the same amplitude.

The frequency spectrum of the male song has a broad maximum around 20 kHz.

The tegmina (Fig. 6E) are small and the mirror in the right tegmen is roundish. The male stridulatory file carries about 105 teeth (Fig. 7; Tab. 2). In the middle of the file the inter-tooth intervals are about 63 µm. The female stridulatory file (Fig. 9E) is very similar to that of U. finoti .

Morphology. Grouped within Finoti Subgroup (Nadig 1994; see finoti). Male 10th tergum, epiproct, cerci and titillators are shown on Fig. 10D 1–2 and Fig. 11E.

Ecology. We found the species in a ruderal habitat (stubble of a grain plantation) within the Köppen climate type BSk (Cold semi-arid) at the border with Csa (Hot-summer Mediterranean)(Verner et al. 2018).