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
| Myopsalta_majurae_Mt_Ainslie | 0:42 · Lindsay Popple |
| Myopsalta majurae | AU · Lindsay Popple |
| Popple, Lindsay W. (2017). A revision of the Myopsalta crucifera (Ashton) species group (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettini) with 14 new species from mainland Australia. Zootaxa, 4340(1): 1. |
Calling song (Fig. 23). The calling song contains a set of repeated phrases of variable duration. Each phrase contains 4–10 (typically 4–7) long echemes, each 0.326–0.411 s duration and separated by gaps of 0.041–0.081 s duration (all statistics, n =3 recordings). Each phrase ends with a slightly shorter echeme (0.278–0.306 s duration), short gap (0.020–0.026 s duration), a macrosyllable (0.047–0.064 s duration) and a longer gap (0.153–0.172 s duration). It is anticipated that females respond during the gap following the macrosyllable at the end of each phrase, although there are presently no observations to support this prediction. This species calls during the day and is not known to sing at dusk. The calling song maintains an even frequency distribution throughout, with a high amplitude plateau of 9.7–14.2 kHz and a dominant frequency of approximately 10.2 kHz.