Ornebius alatus (Saussure, 1877)

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 : 1583

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2482670

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17006432

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A187D5-FFF1-D952-78D0-4E9EFC9BFA35

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ornebius alatus (Saussure, 1877)
status

 

Ornebius alatus (Saussure, 1877) View in CoL

Calling song

A chirp that increases the interval between syllables throughout the emission. Overall, the signal presents phrases with 8.23 ± 2.32 (4.92–10.37) seconds and an interval between syllables of 0.16 ± 0.01 ( 0.143 –0.183) seconds. Each phrase comprises 29.5 ± 5.97 (21–35) syllables with a peak frequency of 6.13 ± 0.02 (6.11–6.15) kHz ( Figures 17J View Figure 17 and 18H View Figure 18 ).

Collection site

Porto Alegre, near the Parque Natural Municipal Saint-Hilaire. Only one male was collected. The individual was found in shrubs up to 50 cm in height, temperature of 24°C, at 10 am in February 2023.

Remarks

This is the first official publication of the species’ sound record.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Mogoplistidae

Genus

Ornebius

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