Miogryllus itaquiensis Orsini and Zefa, 2017

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 : 1582-1583

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2482670

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17006430

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A187D5-FFF2-D952-7895-48EEFCBFFC86

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Miogryllus itaquiensis Orsini and Zefa, 2017
status

 

Miogryllus itaquiensis Orsini and Zefa, 2017 View in CoL

Calling song

A mix-trill that varies between two phrases. The first phrase, consisting of a series of short syllables in sequence, lasts 0.108 ± 0.006 (0.104 –0.122) seconds, with each phrase lasting 7.16 ± 0.4 (7–8) seconds, and intervals between phrases of 0.057 ± 0.004 (0.052 –0.064) seconds. The second phrase comprises a trill. Each syllable lasts 0.008 ± 0.0002 (0.0079 – 0.0085) seconds, with intervals of 0.006 ± 0.0001 (0.0067 –0.0071) seconds. Altogether, the second part presents 68.3 ± 0.57 (68–69) syllables per second. The peak frequency is 6.48 ± 0.12 (6.313 –6.575) kHz.

Courtship song

A mix-trill. Phrases last 0.06 ± 0.006 (0.06–0.074) seconds, with 5.2 ± 0.44 (5–6) syllables. Overall, the interval between phrases is 0.02 ± 0.003 (0.021 –0.029) seconds, with a peak frequency of 6 ± 0.081 (5.935 –6.140) kHz.

Collection site

Santa Vitória do Palmar, at EstaÇão Ecológica do Taim, Porto Alegre, and Viamão, at Parque Estadual de Itapuã. Males emit signals between 9 pm and 12:30 am in burrows or at the burrow edges located in open areas. Males were recorded and collected between October and January of 2020, 2021, and 2023, with a temperature of 18°C ( Figures 17H–I View Figure 17 and 18G View Figure 18 ).

Remarks

Calling song previously described by Orsini and Zefa (2017).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Gryllidae

Genus

Miogryllus

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