BioAcoustica is a free, open repository of wildlife sound recordings from the Natural History Museum, London.
Taxonomic index of the BioAcoustica collection
Acoustic and biological measurements in the BioAcoustica collection
Recording annotations from ann-o-mate
The specimens that recordings are of, from the collections
Where the specimens that recordings are of were collected, not where the sound was recorded
| field recording, at 13:00 h, 23.5°C (Sony WM-D3, tape no. S1/1996A) | 0:26 |
Accoring to Faber (1953) the Eastern Cricket does not have a calling song; it sings only when severasl crickets are together, or before and during mating.
Modicogryllus frontalis (Fieber, 1845) (Figs. 4; 11; 18) - males can be heared stridulating from early July until late September. The echemes are composed of 18-20 hemisyllables and the gaps between those echemes are variable between 0.1 and 3 seconds, depending on the temperature. For example, at 29oC those gaps are 0.2-1.5 seconds. The echeme has 0.2-0.3 seconds. Modicogryllus frontalis begins its stridulation in the afternoon and at night, but not rarely we can hear this species singing at day time (especially in sunny days). Pars stridens is approximately 1,2 mm long (area with stridulatory pegs) and has 139 pegs.