Bioacoustics of Aerotegmina megaloptera

Species

4 trait measurements

Account

What the sources say about this taxon, as written.

description · Plazi

Measurements , male (mm) (N=1). Total length of body 16. Length of pronotum 6. Length of hind femur 16.5. Length of tegmina (as seen from above) 24. Female. Unknown. Diagnosis.—Easily distinguished from all other described species of Aerotegmina , A. kilimandjarica Hemp, 2001 , A. shengenae Hemp, 2006 and A. taitensis Hemp, 2013 by the large size and the extremely ballon-like inflated tegmina (see Fig. 12 A, comparison with A. kilimandjarica ). A. megaloptera n. sp. shows a well developed pattern of tegminal veins while in all other Aerotegmina species the main veins are obsolete on the tegmina. The stridulatory file in A. megaloptera n. sp. is large and pronounced and the mirror on the right tegmina obsolete. In all other Aerotegmina species the stridulatory file is smaller and not as conspicuous visible on the left tegmen and on the right tegmen a large mirror is present, oval-round and hyaline. The stridulatory area is not vertically raised in the northerly distributed Aerotegmina species while in A. megaloptera n. sp. this area is almost vertically oriented ( Fig. 12 A).

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discussion · Plazi

Remarks: The size and shape of A. megaloptera n. sp. suggests a different evolution from the more northernly occurring Aerotegmina species of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania . It changes the picture of the evolutionary processes of this genus. From the northern species having a strikingly different morphology and also occupying a different ecological niche A. megaloptera n. sp. seems to have evolved isolated for a long geological time. A. megaloptera n. sp. is much larger than any other described species of Aerotegmina and it was collected in coastal forest while all other known species are restricted to montainous forests in the submontane and montane zones of mountains and mountain ranges. Morphologically similar is a yet undescribed species from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania having the same large acoustical chamber and general habitus as A. megaloptera n. sp. Subfamily Meconematinae

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Acoustic traits

4 measurements across 4 traits. Each name links to its term in the audioBlast vocabulary.

Bandwidth -10db

0.1

Calling Call

Peak Frequency (kHz)

2.0

Calling Call

Number Of Teeth On Stridulatory File

250

Calling Call

Length Of Stridulatory File

11

Calling Call

Measurements

Every value behind the summaries above. Each links to its own record in the API, which carries the reference it was taken from.

TraitValueCallPartSexTemp.Source
Bandwidth -10db0.1Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Peak Frequency (kHz)2.0Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Number Of Teeth On Stridulatory File250Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Length Of Stridulatory File11Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca

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Higher classification

Contains

Nothing below this taxon in audioBlast.

Alongside

Sources

The rows audioBlast holds for this taxon, each matched to the same Catalogue of Life node. Where a source classifies it differently, its own classification is kept.

SourceIts nameIts rankIts familyRecord
bio.acousti.caAerotegmina megalopteraSpeciesTettigoniidaebio.acousti.ca/6148
PlaziAerotegmina megalopteraSpeciesTettigoniidaePlazi/Aerotegmina megaloptera

Machine-readable

Bioschemas is in the head of this page. The Darwin Core RDF lives at the API address below, which negotiates JSON-LD and Turtle.

Bioschemas Taxon, as embedded
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