Anterastes tolunayi Karabag , 1951

Sirin, Deniz, Taylan, Mehmet Sait & Mol, Abbas, 2014, First song descriptions of some Anatolian species of Tettigoniidae Krauss, 1902 (Orthoptera, Ensifera), ZooKeys 369, pp. 1-24 : 3

Anterastes tolunayi Karabag, 1951

Distribution.

Anterastes tolunayi has been recorded from Aydın and İzmir provinces of Turkey (Figure 2a) ( Karabağ 1951, 1958, Çıplak 2004).

Song recording.

Males collected from İzmir, Bozdağ, Günalan yaylası-millik mevkii, 38°21.110'N, 28°06.245'E, 1545 m, 15.VI.2010 (by D. Şirin) and calling song recorded from two males at 26 °C in laboratory (by D. Şirin).

Description of song.

Eight records from two males were analyzed. The calling song consists of sequences of polysyllabic phrases of different duration (Figure 2b, 2c), each of the phrases repeated regularly and lasting 94-150 ms (124 ± 0.03). Amplitudes of syllables getting louder from the first syllable to last one (Figure 2d). Therefore gen eral song type of the phrase is typical crescendo. The number of syllables within 100 ms is 29-40 (34.62 ± 2.21) (Figure 2d). Syllable duration varies between 2 and 5 ms (3.67 ± 0.34) with an interval of 0-1 ms (0.56 ± 0.06).