Poecilimon guichardi Karabag, 1964

Chobanov, Dragan P., Sevgili, Hasan & Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, 2020, Bioacoustics of poorly known Poecilimon taxa (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae with redescriptions of P. pechevi and P. stschelkanovzevi, Zootaxa 4890 (4), pp. 535-553 : 545

Poecilimon guichardi Karabag, 1964

TURKEY: Mersin, G̹zelyayla, Eskig ̹zle Mevkii , 12.07.1999, leg. H. Sevgili, 1 male recorded ; Mersin, G̹zelyayla, Eskig ̹zle Mevkii , 01.08.2020 (37.045ºN, 34.496ºE), leg. H. Sevgili & O. Sevgili, 1 male recorded .

The song is quite similar to that of P. armeniacus . In both recordings of this species a continuous series of syllables (up to 35 s) is heard, produced with SRRs of 9.2–10.4 Hz ( T =29ºC; Fig. 6 ). The syllables had durations of ca. 67–85 ms and contained 6 impulses, resulting in a mean interval of 14 ms between the impulses.

The spectrum of the song had its peak between 30 and 40 kHz ( Fig. 9 ).

For details of the stridulatory file see Table 2 , Fig. 5 .

Figures

FIGURE 5. Stridulatory files of Poecilimon species; a—P. ataturki, b—P. armeniacus, c—P. harveyi, d—P. haydari, e—P. doga, f—P. excisus, g—P. davisi, h—P. guichardi.

FIGURE 6. Oscillograms of male calling songs of Poecilimon species, an overview. Name of taxa and air temperature during recording provided below each oscillogram. Time scale in the lower right corner.

FIGURE 9. Spectral composition of male calling songs.