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Saga natoliae

Species · 4 recordings

Recordings

lab recording, 12.8.1982, 28°C (Uher 4400IC with Uher M645, tape no. U26/81r)0:03
Greece, Macedonia, laboratory breeding, lab recording, 6.6.1989(?) (Kenwood KX880HX with copy of Uher Report 4400, tape: TDK SA-X90, tape no. KW90:10.30-14.30, bandbass 11917 Hz, 866 cent.)0:29
566:3 Saga natoliae (638r1)1:34 · Fer Willemse
566:4 Saga natoliae (638r2)3:30 · Fer Willemse

Literature

ŞİRİN, DENİZ; TAYLAN, MEHMET SAİT; Mol, Abbas (2019). Bioacoustics review of Anatolian species of the predatory bush-cricket genus Saga (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Saginae) with the description of a new species.
Heller, Klaus-Gerhard (2016). Bioacoustics. Saginae of Europe: 77-100.

Behaviour

A total of 15 records from six males were examined. The calling song consists of phrases (Figure 2B) with irregular intervals. Phrases usually reach its maximum intensity between 1/4 and 1/3 of the phrase; however, in some of the phrases, there is often a more gradual crescendo roughly up to half of the phrase. Phrase durations vary between 2.29 and 4.18 s (3.21 ± 0.18), and the phrase comprises between 83 and 131 syllables (108.6 ± 5.56). The phrase generally begins with a characteristic isolated hemisyllable, which has variable amplitude and durations within intra and inter-populations of species (Termessos: 3–18 ms; Torbalı: 26–31 ms and Ahırlı: 15–23 ms) (Figure 2C). The isolated loud hemisyllable is followed by contiguous/ordinary syllables of phrase with a vari- able gap in duration within intra and inter-populations of species (Termessos: 25–276 ms; Torbalı: 24–28 ms and Ahırlı: 12–124 ms). Oscillographic analyses show that the syllable period duration varies between 25.01 and 46.47 ms (28.33 ± 1.83) and each syllable shows approximately a standard structure, which is formulated as soft opening hemisyllable + loud closing hemisyllable (Figure 2D).

Source: ŞİRİN, DENİZ; TAYLAN, MEHMET SAİT; Mol, Abbas (2019). Bioacoustics review of Anatolian species of the predatory bush-cricket genus Saga (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Saginae) with the description of a new species.

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