Copiphora brachyptera Karny, 1907

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 : 1563-1565

Copiphora brachyptera Karny, 1907

Calling song

A chirp with well-defined echemes with 5.7–1.6 (2.38–10.62) seconds, with 28.89 ± 7.54 (12–54) syllables per echeme. The interval between each syllable is 0.09 ± 0.014 (0.068 – 0.136) seconds. The species’ peak frequency is 11.04 ± 1.6 (7.5–15.9) kHz, with a bandwidth of 7.30 ± 0.80 (6.18–8.06) kHz.

Collection site

Parque Natural Municipal Saint-Hilaire. The males were recorded and collected between March and April 2022, with temperatures ranging between 20 and 22°C, between 8 pm and 10 pm. The males produce signals in canopy regions, above 4 metres above the ground ( Figures 9A 10F ).

Remarks

This is the first official publication with the species’ calling song, as well as the first record in the Pampa region.

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.