Omocestus (Omocestus) rufipes
Creators: name: Şirin, Deniz
name: Mol, Abbas
name: Taylan, Mehmet Saýt
name: Demýr, Eyüp
name: Kizilocak, Dýlan Hevra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Baissogryllidae
Omocestus
Omocestus rufipes

description: Omocestus (Omocestus) rufipes (Zetterstedt, 1821)
Gryllus ventralis Zetterstedt, 1821: 89.
Omocestus ventralis Karabağ, 1958: 143.
Distribution in the Palaearctic region: Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe, Kazakhstan, Northern Africa, Northern Caucasia, The region of from Eastern Siberia to Mongolia and Turkey (Bei-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951; Harz 1975; Willemse 1985; Ragge 1986; Mol & Zeybekoğlu 2013).
Distribution in the Turkish Thrace: EDİRNE: Keşan-Çanakkale yolu, Yerli Su, Koru Dağı, 260 m, 40°42’857” N, 26°45’186” E, 18.VI.2012, 9 ♂♂, 14 ♀♀ (D. Şirin, N. Ş. Odabaşı & L. Can); Enez, Enez-Keşan yolu arası, 8. km, 32 m, 40° 38’ 687” N, 26° 16’ 244” E, 11.IX.2012, 4♀♀ (D. Şirin); ÇANAKKALE: Gelibolu, Süleymaniye-Şadıllı arası, Koru Dağı, 149 m, 40° 42’ 486” N, 26° 51’ 470” E, 18.VI.2012, 11 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀ (D. Şirin, N. Ş. Odabaşı & L. Can); İSTANBUL: Belgrad Forest, 21.VIII.1910; TEKİRDAĞ: Namık Kemal Üniversitesi kampüsü, 85 m, 41° 00’ 045” N, 27° 35’ 029” E, 04.VI.2012, 15 ♂♂, 11 ♀♀ leg.: D. Şirin (Ebner 1919, author cited as Omocestus ventralis; Mol et al. 2014).
Material examined: TEKİRDAĞ: Kumbağ, Uçmak dere 1.5–2.5 km North North-Eastern, 357m a.s.l., N: 40°49.187’ E: 27°23.599’, 4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, 25.V.2011, between Kumbağ- Uçmakdere, 250m a.s.l., 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, 25.V.2011, leg.: D. Şirin, N. Yılmazer & L. Can; between Ormanlı-Hoşköy, around the Radar, 899m a.s.l., N: 40°47.238’ E: 27°18.301’, 25.IX.2012, 5 ♂♂, leg.: D. Şirin; between Yeniköy-Şarköy (Forested area boundary), 288m a.s.l., N: 40°39.168’ E: 27°02.329’, 12.VI.2013, 3 ♀♀, leg.: D. Şirin; Saray, around Safa alan, 219m a.s.l., N: 41°26.316’ E: 28°05.100’, 08.VII.2012, 6 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, leg.: D. Şirin; EDİRNE: Saksağan Village, around the Saksağandere, 149m a.s.l., N: 41°53.168’ E: 26°35.709’, 18.VI.2013, 5 ♂♂, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Demir; Lalapaşa, between Saksağan-Hüseyinpınar, 153m a.s.l., N: 41°53.202’ E: 26°35.157’, 18.VI.2013, 4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Demir; Lalapaşa, Hanlıyenice exit, 247m a.s.l., N: 41°52.417’ E: 26°40.519’, 18.VI.2013, 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Demir (Calling song recorded from four males at 29 ˚C in the laboratory conditions by D. Şirin and D.H. Kızılocak); ÇANAKKALE: Kavak-Yeniköy between (Forested area boundary), 46m a.s.l., N: 40°37.628’ E: 26°55.758’, 12.VI.2013, 7 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, leg.: D. Şirin; Gelibolu, between Fındıklı-Değirmendüzü, 231m a.s.l., N: 40°24.903’ E: 26°31.873’, 24.VIII.2013, 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Bayram; Gelibolu, Ilgardere exit, 123m a.s.l., N: 40°18.294’ E: 26°28.150’, 24.VIII.2013, 1 ♂♂, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Bayram; Eceabat, return of Kocadere- Anıt road, 172m a.s.l., N: 40°15.700’ E: 26°20.141’, 24.VIII.2013, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Bayram; Eceabat, Behramlı, 145m a.s.l., 24.VIII.2013, 1 ♀, leg.: D. Şirin & E. Bayram (Fig. 8 A).
Description of song: Omocestus rufipes male calling song generally consists of a typical polysyllabic phrase (Fig. 8 B). The calling song lasts mostly between 8.9 and 13.5 s. Syllables numbers vary from 150 to 250 in a phrase (Fig. 8 C). The duration of syllables changes between 55 and 60 ms (Fig. 8 D).
Published song data, used for comparison: Ragge & Reynolds 1998.
description: Published as part of Şirin, Deniz, Mol, Abbas, Taylan, Mehmet Saýt, Demýr, Eyüp & Kizilocak, Dýlan Hevra, 2017, The Gomphocerinae Tarbinsky, 1932 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) fauna of the Turkish Thrace, pp. 361-383 in Zootaxa 4299 (3) on pages 368-369, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/843271