Oecanthus rufescens Serville, 1839

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Anso, Jérémy & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa, Zoosystema 38 (4), pp. 405-452 : 442-444

Oecanthus rufescens Serville, 1839

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Oecanthus rufescens Serville, 1839: 361 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — India, Bombay.

RECORDED SPECIMENS. — New Caledonia, Mont Mou, 1 ♂, 16.VII.2012, by night, tall grass along trail, J. Anso & L. Desutter- Grandcolas (MNHN).

CALLING SONG. — Fig. 16. At 23.5°C, the calling song of Oecanthus rufescens consists of a long repetition of syllables (trill), with the following characteristics: syllable duration = 14.9 ± 0.3 ms; syllable period = 22.5 ± 1.6 ms; silence inter-syllable = 7.6 ± 1.6 ms; syllable duty cycle = 66.4 %; the dominant frequency is 3.3 kHz and correspond to the fundamental frequency (MNHN-SO-2016-19).