Subspecies-specific song preferences and diverged heterospecific discrimination in females of the bush-cricket Isophya kraussii (Orthoptera: Phaneropterinae)

2017 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirill Márk Orci ◽  
Ionuţ Ştefan Iorgu
Keyword(s):  
Song Preferences ◽  
Bush Cricket

The katydid that was: the tananá, stridulation, Henry Walter Bates and Charles Darwin

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio J. Bidau
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Bush Cricket

The Amazonian bush-cricket or katydid, Thliboscelus hypericifolius (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae), called tananá by the natives was reported to have a song so beautiful that they were kept in cages for the pleasure of listening to the melodious sound. The interchange of letters between Henry Walter Bates and Charles Darwin regarding the tananá and the issue of stridulation in Orthoptera indicates how this mysterious insect, which seems to be very rare, contributed to the theory of sexual selection developed by Darwin.

First Record of the Bush-Cricket Isophya Harzi (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae) Outside its Locus Typicus

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ionuţ Ştefan Iorgu ◽  
Alexandru Ioan Tatu ◽  
Elena Iulia Iorgu
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Acoustic Behaviour ◽  
Bioacoustic Analysis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Locus Typicus ◽  
Bush Cricket

Abstract During the period 2008-2012, the bush-cricket Isophya harzi Kis, 1960 has been the subject of several collecting trips in Cozia Mountains, where it was believed to be endemic, in order to study its acoustic behaviour. However, on a recent trip to Piatra Craiului Mountains, to study its Orthoptera fauna, I. harzi was surprisingly found in clearings and mountain steppe slopes covered with tall subalpine vegetation from Northern and Western areas. Bioacoustic analysis and some ecological notes are presented in the paper.

Armoured Bush Cricket attacks on nestling Red-billed Quelea (Quelea quelea)

Ostrich ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 74 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 135-135
Author(s):  
Robert A Cheke ◽  
Peter J Jones ◽  
Martin Dallimer ◽  
Stuart V Green
Keyword(s):  
Bush Cricket

Adult female domesticated canaries can modify their song preferences

1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (8) ◽  
pp. 1346-1350 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Nagle ◽  
M. L. Kreutzer
Keyword(s):  
Adult Female ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Breeding Period ◽  
Serinus Canaria ◽  
Sexual Imprinting ◽  
Song Preferences

Previous research has shown that acoustic experiences in early life influence song preferences in female domesticated canaries, Serinus canaria. We do not know, however, if they can modify song preferences in adulthood. In the experiments reported here, one group of young female domesticated canaries was reared in acoustic isolation in early life without song tutoring, while two groups were tutored with a playback song (one with wild canary song and one with domesticated canary song). We tested these three groups of females once they had reached adulthood, prior to breeding, using copulation-solicitation displays as an index of their song preferences. The females were then placed in an aviary with males during the breeding period, after which they were retested. We observed that the song preferences of females reared in acoustic isolation and those tutored with wild canary song had changed. These females were able to develop new song preferences in adult life. These results are discussed in relation to current views on song preferences and sexual imprinting.

The Acoustic Behaviour of the Bush Cricket Pholidoptera Griseoaptera

1966 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
M. D. R. JONES
Keyword(s):  
Chirp Rate ◽  
Mutual Inhibition ◽  
Acoustic Behaviour ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Hearing Range ◽  
High Level ◽  
Bush Cricket

1. Pholidoptera griseoptera males singing alone or alternating with other males produce short chirps of three or occasionally four syllables (wing movements) lasting about 100 msec. (at 18° C.). 2. Close proximity of singing males may result in rivalry behaviour where chirps lasting up to about 4 sec. may be produced. The long chirp is not usually continuous but has a number of breaks or ‘stutters’. 3. The syllables and syllable rates in the long chirp and short chirp are essentially similar. 4. At the end of a short chirp or of a group of syllables in the long chirp, the syllable rate is decreased, possibly indicating a waning of excitation of the syllable-producing mechanism. 5. Males within hearing range of each other alternate or occasionally synchronize their short chirps. The pattern of this interaction appears to be determined mainly by mutual inhibition between the singing males. Mutual excitation may cause an in crease in chirp rate during the interaction. 6. Chirping may be controlled by a pacemaker system which can be inhibited or excited by its various inputs. A long chirp is possibly the result of a high level of excitation of this mechanism. 7. Alternation singing and rivalry behaviour between males may have a territorial significance.

Bioacoustics review of Anatolian species of the predatory bush-cricket genus Saga (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Saginae) with the description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4664 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
DENİZ ŞİRİN ◽  
MEHMET SAİT TAYLAN ◽  
HASAN SEVGİLİ ◽  
ABBAS MOL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Calling Song ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Structural Investigations ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Male Calling ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Bush Cricket

The genus Saga is a genus of generally large predatory bush-cricket species. It includes 13 taxa in the Palaearctic region. In this research, eight species belonging to Saga (Tettigoniidae, Saginae) were sampled during field studies in different regions of Anatolia of Turkey between 2010 and 2018 (except one specimen). The bioacoustic parameters of these species recorded during the field or in laboratory conditions and the male calling song descriptions, as well as the oscillographic illustrations and distribution maps are given. A new population of Saga found from the South-Eastern Taurus (Hakkari province), which is affiliated to a new species and shows similarity to S. ephippigera, along with the morphological and bioacoustical descriptions of Saga hakkarica sp. n. Şirin & Taylan from Turkey, are also given. The relationships between the new species and the closest taxa are discussed using morphological and bioacoustical characters. The structural investigations of the male calling songs reveal three different bioacoustic groups affiliated to eight Anatolian Saga species; as (i) Ephippigera group (S. syriaca + (S. ephippigera + Saga hakkarica), (ii) Natoliae group (S. natoliae + (S. beieri + (S. longicaudata + S. puella) and (iii) S. cappadocica. 

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