Neoconocephalus sp. 4

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. 4

Calling song

An uninterrupted trill. Each echemme lasts for 0.006 ± 0.0008 (0.0056 –0.007) seconds, separated by short intervals of 0.009 ± 0.001 (0.007 –0.011) seconds. Altogether, 77.5 ± 3.65 (72–83) syllables per second are emitted, with a peak frequency of 13.52 ± 0.18 (13.28–13.69) kHz and a bandwidth of 3.63 ± 0.10 (3.56–3.75) kHz.

Collection site

Santa Vitória do Palmar, Donatos district. The male was recorded and collected on February 29, 2022, at 9 pm, with a temperature of 25°C. The collected organism and other males were singing within bushes close to marshy areas, at heights near 1 metre ( Figures 9E and 10J ).

Remarks

We are waiting for future studies to confirm the identification at the 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.

Figure 10. Visual guide of Conocephalinae and Copiphorinae Pampa katydids with songs recorderd. (A) Conocephalus longipes (Redtenbacher, 1891). (B) Conocephalus saltator (Saussure, 1859). (C) Conocephalus sp. 1. (D) Conocephalus sp. 2. (E) Conocephalus sp. 3. (E) Copiphora brachyptera Karny, 1907. (F) Neoconocephalus sp. 1. (G) Neoconocephalus sp. 2. (H) Neoconocephalus sp. 3. (I) Neoconocephalus sp. (J) Neoconocephalus sp. 4. Bar: 1cm. Photos by Riuler Corrêa Acosta.