Neoconocephalus sp. 5

Acosta, Riuler C., Timm, Vítor F., Zefa, Edison, da Costa, Maria K. M., Ruschel, Tatiana P., Lopes, Dimitrius A. R. & Kaminski, Lucas A., 2025, Pampa singers: an acoustic and visual guide to singing insects (Orthoptera and Hemiptera), Journal of Natural History 59 (21 - 24), pp. 1541-1589 : 1566

Neoconocephalus sp. 5

Calling song

A trill with more prolonged echemmes and higher intensity (dB). Each echemme lasts for 0.53 ± 0.03 (0.495 –0.575) seconds, containing 83.06 ± 7.36 (69–92) syllables. Each of these syllables has an interval of 0.159 ± 0.01 (0.141 –0.196) seconds, with a peak frequency of 13.25 ± 0.35 (12.7–13.61) kHz and a bandwidth of 3.93 ± 0.13 (3.75–4.12) kHz.

Collection site

Parque Natural Municipal Saint-Hilaire. The male was recorded and collected on March 17, 2022, at 8 pm, with a temperature of 22°C. It was found singing alongside other males in bushes up to 1 metre in height, within open field areas ( Figure 9F ).

Remarks

We are expecting future studies to confirm the identification at species level.

Figures

Figure 9. Songs of Copiphorinae katydids. (A) Calling song of Copiphora brachyptera Karny, 1907. (B) Calling song of Neoconocephalus sp. 1. (C) Calling song of Neoconocephalus sp. 2. (D) Calling song of Neoconocephalus sp. 3. (E) Calling song of Neoconocephalus sp. 4. (F) Calling song of Neoconocephalus sp. 5.