Phylloscirtus amoenus Burmeister, 1880

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 : 1579

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2482670

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17006416

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A187D5-FFFD-D95E-788C-4DF7FBBFFC8D

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Phylloscirtus amoenus Burmeister, 1880
status

 

Phylloscirtus amoenus Burmeister, 1880 View in CoL

Calling song

A trill. Overall, the signal presents 71.2 ± 0.83 (70–72) syllables per second, with each lasting for 0.009 ± 0.0008 (0.009–0.01) seconds and intervals between them of 0.004 ± 0.0008 ( 0.003 –0.005) seconds. The peak frequency is 6.473 ± 0.014 ( 6.455 –6.492) kHz.

Collection site

Santa Vitória do Palmar, Pelotas and Viamão. Males produce signals during both day and night in shrubs at the edge, with calling sites between 1 and 2 metres above the ground. Individuals were recorded and collected in January 2020, at 9 pm, with a temperature of 23°C ( Figures 15F View Figure 15 and 16I View Figure 16 ).

Remarks

Calling song previously described by Martins et al. (2012), Zefa et al. (2013, 2022b).

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