Neoconocephalus sp. 1

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 : 1565

Neoconocephalus sp. 1

Calling song

A chirp emitted at defined intervals. It features short echemmes with 0.56 ± 0.06 (0.434 – 0.676) seconds, with 99.25 ± 12.16 (76–117) syllables, each one spaced by an interval of 0.76 ± 0.18 (0.514–1.02) seconds between them. Peak frequency of 14.67 ± 0.26 (14.4–15) kHz and a bandwidth of 2.32 ± 0.09 (2.25–2.43) kHz.

Collection site

EstaÇão Ecológica do Taim, on 11 January 2021, at 10 pm, with a temperature of 19°C. The collected male and other males were producing signals on the ground, in edge-of-forest locations. Despite the recording being at 10 pm, the males produced signals between 8 pm and 4 am ( Figures 9B and 10G ).

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.