Conocephalus saltator (Saussure, 1859)

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 : 1561

Conocephalus saltator (Saussure, 1859)

Calling song

A mixed trill. The echemmes have a duration of 0.64 ± 0.15 (0.474 –0.747) seconds, with 20.6 ± 3.97 (16–23) syllables. The interval between echemmes is 1.15 ± 0.21 (0.884 –1.418) seconds. The peak frequency is 16.19 ± 0.24 (15.8–16.4) kHz, with a bandwidth of 14.01 ± 0.77 (13.31–15.18) kHz.

Collection site

Municipality of Porto Alegre, at Jardim Botânico de Porto Alegre, and Viamão, at Parque Natural Municipal Saint–Hilaire. Males were collected and recorded on 30 September 2021, at 11 am, 0.2 metres above the ground, with a temperature of 18°C. The males produce signals close to the ground, within typical open-field vegetation ( Figures 8B and 10B ).

Remarks

The calling song has been previously described by Chamorro-Rengifo et al. (2018) and Fianco et al. (2022).

Figures

Figure 8. Songs of Conocephalinae katydids. (A). Calling song of Conocephalus longipes (Redtenbacher, 1891). (B) Calling song of Conocephalus saltator (Saussure, 1859). (C) Calling song of Conocephalus sp. 1. (D) Calling song of Conocephalus sp. 2. (E) Calling song of Conocephalus sp. 3.

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.