Dociostaurus (Stauronotulus) cappadocicus (Azam, 1913)

Mol, Abbas, 2013, New species and new song record of the genus Dociostaurus Fieber, 1853 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae) from Southern Anatolia, Turkey, Zootaxa 3683 (4), pp. 486-500 : 496-497

Dociostaurus (Stauronotulus) cappadocicus (Azam, 1913)

Stauronotus crassiusculus variety cappadocicus Azam. 1913 . Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 219

Material examined. (see Table 1)

Morphological description. See Ramme (1951) and Demirsoy 1977.

Song (Original data). Generally calling song of D. cappadocicus consists of a long phrase ( Fig. 10 C). This phrase consists of irregular number of syllables and ranged from 4 to 13. Each syllable lasting about 87–101 ms ( Fig. 13 A) and consist of 5–8 high amplitude pulses. All syllables in the phrase do not include gaps and from begin to end of syllables with noisy song in the background. Amplitude of high amplitude pulses in the syllable is increase from first to second or third one and decreases from middle to last one. Each pulse period in syllable is lasting about 4–7 ms ( Fig. 13 B) and there is no gap between the pulses.

Distribution. This species was recorded from southern part of Turkey, especially on the range of Taurus Mountain ( Ramme 1951; Karabaġ 1958; Demirsoy 1977; Ünal 1997).

Figures

FIGURE 10. Complete phrase of male calling songs of (A) D. icconium sp. n., (B) D. brevicollis and (C) D. cappadocicus.

FIGURES 11 – 13. Male calling song (A—a part of syllable periods, B—one complete syllable), 11 — D. icconium sp. n., 12 — D. brevicollis and 13 — D. cappadocicus.