02561nas a2200157 4500008004100000022001400041245014300055210006900198260001600267300001200283490000900295520199700304100002602301700001802327856005802345 2017 eng d a1175-532600aFrom an old sound recording to a new species in the genus Horatosphaga (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Phaneropterinae: Acrometopini)0 aFrom an old sound recording to a new species in the genus iHorat cOct-09-2018 a430-4340 v43233 a

Among insects, Orthoptera are a group famous for communicating by sound. This is especially true for bush-crickets (or katydids; Tettigonioidea). All acoustically active species produce sound by rubbing the fore wings (tegmina) against each other, using a stridulatory file situated on the lower side of the left tegmen and a scraper formed by the inner edge of the right tegmen (see e.g., Ragge & Reynolds 1998). Bush-cricket species of the tribe Acrometopini often have complicated stridulatory files and also complex songs, as shown in a recent study (Hemp et al. 2017). During the preparation of that paper we discovered a sound record of a species of the group taken on 16th March 1972 by the entomologist David Hollis in Angola as part of the multi-disciplinary entomological South Western Africa Expedition (for more details see Lane et al. 2011, Pethers 2016). Hollis (principally a hemipterist) published several papers on different groups of insects (see http://bionames.org/authors/David%20Hollis; incomplete), including Orthoptera (see Ingrisch & Willemse 2004). The sound recording was deposited in the British Museum (Natural History) Library of Recorded Insect Sounds, and was later made openly accessible in the BioAcoustica repository (Baker et al. 2015). Hollis had found the animal at light, recorded it on the same day singing on a bush, and brought the specimen (together with two conspecific males) to the Natural History Museum (NHM), London. Here it was later identified as Horatosphaga ?stuhlmanni (Karsch 1896) by D. Ragge, the curator of Orthoptera at the NHM at that time. Under this name (Horatosphaga ?stuhlmanni) the song was described in Hemp et al. 2017. Horatosphaga males are fully winged while females are flightless and plump; sexual dimorphism reaches its extreme form in this group of species. Species of this genus are mostly recorded from open grasslands in savanna habitats up to montane elevations (e.g. H. heteromorpha, Hemp 2013).

1 aHeller, Klaus-Gerhard1 aBaker, Edward uhttps://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.4323.301288nas a2200157 4500008004100000022001400041245020500055210006900260260001600329300001000345490000600355520068200361100001801043700002101061856004801082 2015 eng d a1314-283600aNatural History Museum Sound Archive I: Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae Leach, 1815, including 3D scans of burrow casts of Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Linnaeus, 1758) and Gryllotalpa vineae Bennet-Clark, 19700 aNatural History Museum Sound Archive I Orthoptera Gryllotalpidae cSep-12-2016 ae74420 v33 a

The Natural History Museum (NHM) sound archive contains recordings of Gryllotalpidae, and the NHM collection holds plaster casts of the burrows of two species. These recordings and burrows have until now not been made available through the NHM's collection database, making it hard for researchers to make use of these resources.
New information

Eighteen recordings of mole crickets (three identified species) held by the NHM have been made available under open licenses via BioAcoustica. 3D scans of the burrows of Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Linnaeus, 1758) and Gryllotalpa vineae Bennet-Clark, 1970 have been made available via the NHM Data Portal.

1 aBaker, Edward1 aBroom, Yoke-Shum uhttp://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=744200277nas a2200085 4500008004100000245004800041210004600089100001800135856003800153 2015 eng d00aBioAcoustica: Talks: Insect Natural History0 aBioAcoustica Talks Insect Natural History1 aBaker, Edward uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5519/001301000305nas a2200085 4500008004100000245006300041210005900104100001800163856003800181 2015 eng d00aBioAcoustica: Talks: Frederick W. Edwards Annual Lectures.0 aBioAcoustica Talks Frederick W Edwards Annual Lectures1 aBaker, Edward uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5519/001301000329nas a2200121 4500008004100000245002500041210002500066100001800091700001900109700001500128700001700143856004700160 2014 eng d00aNHM Sound Collection0 aNHM Sound Collection1 aBaker, Edward1 aPrice, Ben, W.1 aBroom, Sam1 aSmith, Leroy uhttp://bio.acousti.ca/nontaxonomy/term/58800555nas a2200169 4500008004100000245008400041210006900125260001200194300001100206490000900217100001800226700001900244700002000263700001300283700001800296856007100314 2015 eng d00aBioAcoustica: a free and open repository and analysis platform for bioacoustics0 aBioAcoustica a free and open repository and analysis platform fo c08/2015 abav0540 v20151 aBaker, Edward1 aPrice, Ben, W.1 aRycroft, S., D.1 aHill, J.1 aSmith, V., S. uhttp://database.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/database/bav05402567nas a2200169 4500008004100000022001400041245015200055210006900207300001000276490000600286520197800292100001802270700001902288700001902307700002302326856004802349 2015 eng d a1314-283600aGlobal Cicada Sound Collection I: Recordings from South Africa and Malawi by B. W. Price & M. H. Villet and harvesting of BioAcoustica data by GBIF0 aGlobal Cicada Sound Collection I Recordings from South Africa an ae57920 v33 a

Background
Sound collections for singing insects provide important repositories that underpin existing research (e.g. Price et al. 2007 at http://bio.acousti.ca/node/11801; Price et al. 2010) and make bioacoustic collections available for future work, including insect communication (Ordish 1992), systematics (e.g. David et al. 2003), and automated identification (Bennett et al. 2015). The BioAcoustica platform (Baker et al. 2015) is both a repository and analysis platform for bioacoustic collections: allowing collections to be available in perpetuity, and also facilitating complex analyses using the BioVeL cloud infrastructure (Vicario et al. 2011). The Global Cicada Sound Collection is a project to make recordings of the world's cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) available using open licences to maximise their potential for study and reuse. This first component of the Global Cicada Sound Collection comprises recordings made between 2006 and 2008 of Cicadidae in South Africa and Malawi.

New Information
This collection of sounds includes 219 recordings of 133 voucher specimens, comprising 42 taxa (25 identified to species, all identified to genus) from South Africa and Malawi. The recordings have been used to underpin work on the species limits of cicadas in southern Africa, including Price et al. 2007 and Price et al. 2010. The specimens are deposited in the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa (AMGS).

The harvesting of acoustic data as occurrence records by GBIF has been implemented by the Scratchpads Team at the Natural History Museum, London. This link increases the value of individual recordings and the BioAcoustica platform within the global infrastructure of biodiversity informatics by making specimen/occurence records from BioAcoustica available to a wider audience, and allowing their integration with other occurence datasets that also contribute to GBIF.

1 aBaker, Edward1 aPrice, Ben, W.1 aRycroft, Simon1 aVillet, Martin, H. uhttp://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=579201020nas a2200121 4500008004100000245005500041210005300096520060400149100001700753700002300770700001800793856008700811 2015 eng d00aSpeckled Bush Cricket Data Logger - Project Report0 aSpeckled Bush Cricket Data Logger Project Report3 a

This report summarises work carried out on the Speckled Bush Cricket data logger project by Wil Bennett and Dave Chesmore at the University of York and Ed Baker at the Natural History Museum, who together designed and constructed - at the time of writing - a total of ten data logging devices to monitor the presence of Leptophyes punctatissima and other environmental variables such as temperature and humidity. This document summarises the capabilities and functionality of these devices, and comprehensively documents correct operational procedure for deploying the devices in the field.

1 aBennett, Wil1 aChesmore, E. David1 aBaker, Edward uhttps://bio.acousti.ca/nl/content/speckled-bush-cricket-data-logger-project-report