Vellea cruenta (Burmeister, 1838)

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 : 1570-1571

Vellea cruenta (Burmeister, 1838)

Calling song

Composed of a short echemmes with few phrases. Each echemme lasts for 0.029 ± 0.014 (0.017 –0.043) seconds, with intervals between them of 0.32 ± 0.0007 (0.32–0.321)

seconds. The peak frequency is 9.23 ± 1.53 (8.81–11.43) kHz, with a bandwidth of 5.53 ± 0.32 (5.25–5.81) kHz.

Alert song

Not recorded.

Collection site

EstaÇão Ecológica do Taim. The males sing in canopy locations during late afternoon and part of the night, above 3 metres in height. The males were recorded and collected in January 2021 and 2022, with temperatures ranging between 20 and 23°C, at 10 pm ( Figure 11G ).

Remarks

Calling song previously described by Fianco et al. (2022).

Figures

Figure 11. Songs of Meconematinae and Phaneropterinae katydids. (A) Calling song of Cephalophlugis gaucho Tavares, Acosta and Timm, 2022. (B) Calling song of Dasyscelus normalis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895. (C) Calling song of Scaphura elegans (Serville, 1838). (D) Calling song of Anaulacomera sp. 1. (E) Calling song of Anaulacomera sp. 2. (F) Calling song of Grammadera clara Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878. (G) Calling song of Vellea cruenta (Burmeister, 1838).