Montana daghestanica (Uvarov, 1917)

Ivković, Slobodan, Iorgu, Ștefan, Horvat, Laslo, Chobanov, Dragan, Korsunovskaya, Olga & Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, 2017, New data on the bush-cricket Montana medvedevi (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), critically endangered in Europe (EU 28), and a comparison of its song with all known song patterns within the genus, Zootaxa 4263 (3), pp. 527-542 : 538

Montana daghestanica (Uvarov, 1917) — Fig. 7 F.

Locality: Russia, SE Daghestan, to S of vill. Akhty , c. 2000 m a.s.l. (N 41°26', E 47°44'), 14.viii.1997, V. Savitsky (2 males).

The verses in the calling song of M. daghestanica consist of di-syllabic echemes as in M. montana (topotypical Central European populations), but echeme and syllable repetition rates are much lower ( Fig. 7 F).

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FIGURE 7. Oscillograms of calling songs of Montana species. A— medvedevi, B— striata (left Romania, right Russia), C 1 — decticiformis (Shatpe 27 ° C + sun), C 2 — decticiformis (Zharmysh 20 ° C), D— taurica, E 1 — montana (Austria), E 2 — montana (Ukraine, 25 ° C), F— daghestanica, G— armeniaca, H— eversmanni (see text), I— tianshanica, J 1 — tomini (25 ° C), J 2 — tomini (16 ° C), K— helleri. See Table 2 and text for details.