Dociostaurus (Dociostaurus) maroccanus ( Thunberg, 1815 )

Şirin, Deniz, Mol, Abbas, Taylan, Mehmet Saýt, Demýr, Eyüp & Kizilocak, Dýlan Hevra, 2017, The Gomphocerinae Tarbinsky, 1932 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) fauna of the Turkish Thrace, Zootaxa 4299 (3), pp. 361-383 : 365-366

Dociostaurus (Dociostaurus) maroccanus ( Thunberg, 1815)

Grylllus macroccanus Thunberg, 1815: 244.

Distribution in the Palaearctic region: Europe, North and North Eastern Africa, Canary Islands, Caucasia, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Corsica, Middle Asia, Sicilia and Sardinia ( Bei-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951; Soltani 1978; Mol & Zeybekoğlu 2013).

Distribution in the Turkish Thrace: EDİRNE: Süloğlu Saksağandere Forest, 24.VI.1969, 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; 23.VI.1970, 1 ♀; KIRKLARELİ: Lüleburgaz; Kızılcıkdere Village pasture 20.VI.1967, 3 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀; 23.VI.1969, 16 ♂♂, 41 ♀♀; TEKİRDAĞ: Şarköy; ( Karabağ 1958; Karabağ et al. 1971, 1974).

Material examined: KIRKLARELİ: Kırklareli-Kofçaz road, 514m a.s.l., N: 41°54.430’ E: 27°10.714’, 31.VII.2013, 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Bayram; Kofçaz, Kofçaz exit, 604m a.s.l., N: 41°57.683’ E: 27°09.348’, 31.VII.2013, 1 ♂, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Bayram ; TEKİRDAĞ: Değirmenaltı Campus, around Science Faculty , 50m a.s.l., 14. VI.2011, 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, leg.: D. Şirin (Calling song recorded from three males at 29 ˚C in the field by D. Şirin) ; EDİRNE: Keşan-Çanakkale road, 3 km after Yerli Su, Koru Mountain , 260m a.s.l., N: 40°42.857’ E: 26°45.186’, 1 ♂, 18.VI.2012, leg.: D. Şirin, N. Ş. Odabaşı & L. Can ( Fig. 5 A).

Description of song: The male calling song consists of a polysyllabic phrase ( Fig. 5 B). The calling song lasts mostly for 4–14 s. Syllables can be identified as sharpener, in high density, and numbers vary from 9 to 42 in a phrase ( Fig. 5 B). The duration of syllables changes between 50 and 80 ms Each syllable generally consists of 2–3 pulses in different amplitude modulation and its duration lasts for 6–8 ms ( Fig. 5 C). Most of the middle pulse is in high amplitude than the rest in the syllable.

Published song data, used for comparison: Ragge & Reynolds 1998; Savitsky 2007.

Figures

FIGURE 5. The distribution of Dociostaurus (Dociostaurus) maroccanus populations in Turkish Thrace Region, circle represent the location of collected samples during this study and triangle represent the former records in material examined subtitle (A) and male calling song oscillograms at two different time scales (B and C).