Poecilimon pseudornatus Ingrisch and Pavićević, 2010

Ivković, Slobodan, Online, Published & Version, Final, 2017, First results of a faunistic survey on the Orthoptera of Jadovnik Mountain, southwestern Serbia, with data on the calling songs of some bush cricket species, Turkish Journal of Zoology 41 (6), pp. 1083-1095 : 1086-1088

11. Poecilimon pseudornatus Ingrisch and Pavićević, 2010 ( Figure 9 ): 7♂♂, 4♀♀, Sopotnica Ra (1), 10.07.2015 ; 10♂♂, 6♀♀, same locality, 22.07.2016 ; 3♂♂, 3♀♀, Sopotnica (meadow) (2), 09.07.2015 ; 4♂♂, 1♀, same locality, 17.07.2016 ; 2♂♂, 1♀, Sopotnica Co (3), 10.07.2015 ; 5♂♂, same locality, 17.07.2016 ; 5♂♂, 2♀♀, Čelina (6), 18.07.2016 ; 3♂♂, Čelina (forest edge) (7), 18.07.2016 ; 12♂♂, 10♀♀, Vodice (9), 18.07.2016 ; 7♂♂, 4♀♀, V. Rastovac (12), 19.07.2016 ; 10♂♂, 3♀♀, Ogoreljača – Mali Jadovnik (meadow) (14), 20.07.2016 ; 5♂♂, 1♀, Ogoreljača – Mali Jadovnik (roadside) (15), 19.07.2016 ; 3♂♂, 3♀♀, Mali Jadovnik (roadside) (16), 19.07.2016 ; 4♂♂, 3♀♀, Gvozd (20), 20.07.2016 ; 2♂♂, 1♀, Kobilja Glava (21), 20.07.2016 .

ECOLOGY: Pratinicole–silvicole; herbicole– arbusticole.

Remarks: Poecilimon pseudornatus was the most common species on Jadovnik Mountain. Specimens were found mostly in mesophilous meadows, where they were singing and walking (similar to P. denticauda ) or sitting on Rubus bushes. Males were singing throughout the day until late in the night (observed in specimens around the mountain lodge). Song was recorded from 2 different populations—Sopotnica Ra and Ogoreljača– Mali Jadovnik (roadside). Song in both males consisted of single, loud syllables ( Figures 10A and 10B ), lasting 300–331 ms with intervals between 3.5–4 s in Sopotnica Ra (n 16, 28 ° C), and 284–309 ms with intervals between 4.5– 6.5 s in Ogoreljača– Mali Jadovnik (roadside) (n 11, 28 ° C).

A male from Sopotnica Ra has 252 stridulatory teeth ( Figure 11A ); another from Ogoreljača– Mali Jadovnik (roadside), 225 ( Figure 11B ).

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Figure 9. Poecilimon pseudornatus (male).

Figure 10. Poecilimon pseudornatus, oscillograms of male calling song at 28 °C from: A) Sopotnica Ra; B) Ogoreljača–Mali Jadovnik (roadside).

Figure 11. SEM photographs of the stridulatory files: (A) Poecilimon pseudornatus, Sopotnica Ra; (B) Poecilimon pseudornatus, Ogoreljača–Mali Jadovnik (roadside).