Recordings

579:1 Platycleis tessellata (789) 14-Nov	7:27 · W. J. Reynolds
579:7 Platycleis tessellata (792a) 14-Nov	3:11 · W. J. Reynolds
579:8 Platycleis tessellata (792b) 14-Nov	2:18 · W. J. Reynolds
586:5 Platycleis tessellata (754r5)	2:02 · Fer Willemse
565_14_Platycleis tessellata	0:25
405:10 Platycleis tessellata (473)	1:36 · W. J. Reynolds
405:11 Platycleis tessellata (473b)	2:55 · W. J. Reynolds
405:12 Platycleis tessellata (473c)	1:12 · W. J. Reynolds
412:2 Platycleis tessellata (510r2)	6:19 · David R. Ragge
437:17 Platycleis tessellata (Announced as P.holoptera) (724r6)	3:08 · David R. Ragge

Specimens

Platycleis tessellata NHMUK BMNH(E) 010210876
Platycleis tessellata NHMUK BMNH(E) 010210877
Platycleis tessellata NHMUK BMNH(E) 010210878
Platycleis tessellata NHMUK BMNH(E) 010210879
Platycleis tessellata NHMUK BMNH(E) 010210880

Literature

Ragge, D. R. (1990). The songs of the western European bush-crickets of the genus Platycleis in relation to their taxonomy (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 59(1): 1-35.

Behaviour

The song is known to me only from a record (Grein 1984). It consists of scratchy chirps of c. 0.2sec. dursation, sounding rather like 'rebb' and separated by intervals of c. 1 sec.

Source: Bellman, Heiko (1988). A Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Britain and Northern Europe. William Collins & Sons.

Behaviour

The calling song consists of a series of quiet diplosyllables, each lasting about 80-200 ms and composed of an opening hemisyllable lasting about 12-50 ms and a closing hemisyllable lasting about 30-130 ms. The syllables are sometimes repeated regularly at the rate of about 6-8/s for long periods of a minute or more (Fig. 325), but at other times they are repeated much less frequently (about 1-4/s) and less regularly (Fig. 326). Sometimes they are grouped into rather loose echemes of very avriable duration. The intervals between syllables vary from about 30-100 ms when they are repeated regularly to about 0.1-1.0 s or more when the repetition rate is irregular. There are no microsyllables.

Source: Ragge, D. R.; Reynolds, W. J. (1998). The Songs of the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe. Harley Books.

Behaviour

The male calling song was recorded at a relatively low temperature (17°C), after moulting to the adult stage at Hannover, and was some- what irregular ( g. 2). The quiet diplosyllables, each lasting for about 165-175 ms, are composed of an opening hemisyllable lasting for about 40 ms and a little louder closing hemisyllable, lasting for 100-120 ms, separated by a short interval of about 10 ms. The rate of repetition of the syllables was irregular, occuring at about 1-2/s, for long periods. The male calling songs recorded in france and spain reported by Ragge (1990) differ somewhat from those presented by schmidt (1989) for Italian individuals.

Source: Martinho, Ana Paula; Paiva, Maria Rosa (2009). THE SALTOPTERAN FAUNA OF PORTUGAL: NEW RECORDS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS (ORTHOPTEROIDEA). Fragmenta Entomologica, 41(1): 15.