Neoconocephalus sp. 2

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. 2

Calling song

Comprised of an uninterrupted trill. This signal features continuous echemmes, without intervals during emission, totalling 65.25 ± 1.16 (54–68) syllables per second, with a peak frequency of 17.70 ± 0.21 (17.53–18.09) kHz and a bandwidth of 5.67 ± 0.04 (5.62– 5.71) kHz.

Collection site

Santa Vitória do Palmar, at the EstaÇão Ecológica do Taim and in the Donatos district. The males were recorded and collected on 12 January 2021, at 8 pm, with a temperature of 22° C. They also producing signals at forest edges, but at heights above 1 metre ( Figures 9C and 10H ).

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.