Saga ephippigera Fischer von Waldheim 1846
Creators: name: Şirin, Deniz
name: Taylan, Mehmet Sait
name: Sevgili, Hasan
name: Mol, Abbas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Saga
Saga ephippigera

description: Saga ephippigera Fischer von Waldheim, 1846
Distribution: This species was recorded from Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Caucasus and Iran (Kirby 1906; Kaltenbach 1964, 1967, Ramme 1951; Bader & Massa 2001). The distribution of species in Anatolia is mostly in Eastern and South-Eastern parts (Figure 6A) of it (Karabağ 1958; Kaltenbach 1967; Karabağ et al. 1971, 1980; Demirsoy 1975; Salman 1978; Sevgili & Çıplak 2000; Sevgili et al. 2012b; Mol et al. 2016)
Song recording: Male specimens are collected from Turkey; Adıyaman, Çelikhan road, Sürgü Village plateau, N 38°1.141’, E 038°1.439’, 1612 m, 02. VI.2010, leg.: D. Şirin, and the calling songs are recorded from one male at 27 ˚C in the room conditions (by D. Şirin), Erzincan, Kemaliye, Ocak Village, 1485 m, N: 39° 08.732’ E: 38° 35.296’, 03.VII.2012, leg.: D. Şirin & A. Mol, and the calling songs are recorded from one male at 25 ˚C in the laboratory conditions (by D. Şirin), Erzurum, between Oltu-Olur, N 40°38.27’, E 042°7.52’, 1214 m, 31.VII.2017, leg.: H. Sevgili, D. Şirin, A. Mol & M.S. Taylan, and the calling songs are recorded from one male at 25 ˚C in the laboratory conditions (by M.S. Taylan), Elazığ, Sivrice, near Hazarbaba Ski Centre, N 38°25.01’, E 039°18.53’, 1835 m, 28.VII.2017, leg.: H. Sevgili, D. Şirin, A. Mol & M.S. Taylan, and the calling songs are recorded from one male at 28 ˚C in the room conditions (by D. Şirin & M.S. Taylan).
Description of song: Totally, 28 records from six males were examined. The calling song consists of phrases (Figure 6B) with irregular intervals. Phrase durations vary between 0.15 and 0.42 s (0.21 ± 0.03) and each phrase contains 6–13 syllables (9.73 ± 1.14). The phrase begins with a characteristic and isolated first long hemisyllable, which has a longer duration and a higher amplitude according to remaining/ordinary hemisyllables in phrase. The isolated first long hemisyllable durations are variable within intra and inter-populations of species (Oltu: 14–33 ms; Ocak: 24–26 ms, Hazarbaba: 21–25 ms and Çelikhan: 25–30 ms). After isolate first long hemisyllable, the phrase continues with 6–9 lower amplitudes syllables (generally corresponds to 2/3 of phrase) and then continues with relatively higher amplitude syllables (Figure 6C). Oscillographic analyses show that syllable periods duration varies between 14.16 and 33.89 ms (23.11 ± 1.98), and each syllable shows approximately a standard structure which is formulated as soft and long opening hemisyllable + loud and short closing hemisyllable (Figure 6D). The opening hemisyllables duration varies between 12.00–19.06 ms (14.86 ± 1.33), while closing hemisyllable lasts for 5.00–16.30 ms (9.11 ± 1.58). The phrase ends with last hemi syllable, which has longer duration than the previous hemisyllables in phrase and its duration varies between 15.44 and 24.05 ms (20.97 ± 1.51).
description: Published as part of Şirin, Deniz, Taylan, Mehmet Sait, Sevgili, Hasan & Mol, Abbas, 2019, Bioacoustics review of Anatolian species of the predatory bush-cricket genus Saga (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Saginae) with the description of a new species, pp. 83-102 in Zootaxa 4664 (1) on pages 89-90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3383536