Poecilimon

The genus Poecilimon is quite diverse in its acoustic communication. In many species the females respond acoustically to the male song, but in others they have lost this capability, obviously several times independently (see Chobanov & Heller 2010). Within both sections many different song patterns exist, which prove the necessity of acoustic studies in combination to morphology to delimit taxa and solve certain systematic issues (compare Kaya et al. 2018; Sevgili et al. 2018). Due to the vast diversity within the genus and the multitude of rare and endemic taxa, most of the proposed systems focus on certain groups of taxa or on certain geographic area (e.g., Heller 1984; Ünal 2010) and plenty of taxa are still insufficiently known, especially bioacoustically. [1]

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