Sinipta dalmani (Stål, 1861)

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 : 1558-1559

Sinipta dalmani (Stål, 1861)

Calling song

Short echemmes. Each echemme lasts for 0.177 ± 0.043 (0.13–0.215) seconds, with 10.66 ± 2.31 (8–12) syllables each. The interval between echemmes is 0.13 ± 0.04 (0.103 –0.170) seconds, and the interval between syllables is 0.015 ± 0.001 (0.014 –0.018) seconds. The peak frequency is 11.64 ± 1.74 (9.75–13.187) kHz, with a bandwidth of 7.17 ± 0.85 (6–8.062) kHz.

Alert song

Not recorded.

Collection site

Santa Vitória do Palmar, Donatos district. Males were recorded and collected in shrubby areas between February and March of 2021. Males sing above the vegetation, between 0.2 and 0.4 metres from the ground, between 11 am and 1 pm, at a temperature of 19°C ( Figure 6D ).

Remarks

Calling and courtship song described by Clemente et al. (2018).

Figures

Figure 6. Song of grasshoppers. (A). Calling song of Eutryxalis filata (Walker, 1870). (B). Calling song of Euplectrotettix schulzi Bruner, 1900. (C). Alert song of Euplectrotettix schulzi Bruner, 1900. (D). Calling song of Sinipta dalmani (Stål, 1861). (E) Calling song of Xyleus discoideus discoideus (Serville, 1831). (F) Courtship song of Xyleus discoideus discoideus (Serville, 1831). (G) Calling song of Chromacris speciosa (Thunberg, 1824).