Decticus albifrons

Species

1,194 recordings
14 trait measurements
4 specimens

Account

What the sources say about this taxon, as written.

behaviour · bio.acousti.ca

The loud calling song, a common Mediterranean sound in hot, sunny weather, is a long series of click-like syllables, sometimes repeated fairly regularly at the rate of about 5-7/s, or, if less regularly, usually with a mean repetition rate within this range. Depending partly on temperature, the mean repetition rate is occassionally as low as 2/s or as high as 10/s. The interval between successive syllables is usually within the range 0.1-0.4s, but is sometimes under 0.1s and occassionally as long as 1s a little more. The song continues for indefinite periods, often of many minutes. Oscillographic analysis shows thatnearly all (occassionally all) the sound is produced by the closing stroke of the fore wings, each closing hemisyllable lasting about 6-10 ms. The song is resonant, the audible sound produced being an almost pure tone of about 8-9 kHz (see Fig. 257).

this account at bio.acousti.ca

behaviour · bio.acousti.ca

The song of the male found in Montemor-o-Novo ( g. 2) differs from that of the males collected in italy (schmidt 1996a, abb. 12). The loud calling song consisted of a series of very short syllables, sometimes repeated fairly regularly, at a rate of about 16/s at relatively high temper- atures. The interval between successive syllables was very short (about 30-110 ms). The song continued for inde nite periods, often for many minutes. The oscillographic analysis showed that diplosyllables were emitted. The opening stroke is always faint and clear, but the audible sound is produced by the closing stroke of the elytra. The loud part of the hemisyllable lasts for about 5 ms. Ragge & Reynolds (1998) also report- ed some differences in the songs of males collected in france.

this account at bio.acousti.ca

Acoustic traits

14 measurements across 9 traits. Each name links to its term in the audioBlast vocabulary.

Syllable Repetition Rate (Repeated Syllables in Song)

16, 5-7, 2-10

3 measurements · Calling Call

Syllable Duration (song is syllable sequence)

0.06-0.01

Calling Call

Frequency (kHz)

8-9

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
Syllable Repetition Rate (Repeated Syllables in Song)16Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
5-7Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
2-10Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Syllable Interval0.1-0.4Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
0.030-0.110Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
0.1-1.0Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Sound Production MethodElytral stridulation (diplosyllable)Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Elytral stridulation (Closing hemisyllable only)Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Crepitation (Presence)AbsentMale; Femalebio.acousti.ca
HemisyllableDurationFinal0.005Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Peak Frequency (kHz)10Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Song StructureSyllablesCalling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Syllable Duration (song is syllable sequence)0.06-0.01Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Frequency (kHz)8-9Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca

Recordings

1,194 in audioBlast.

579:27 Decticus albifrons (794r9) 16-Nov
130 s
W. J. Reynolds 1990-07-16 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
580:16 Decticus albifrons (798r2) 29-Nov
158 s
W. J. Reynolds 1990-07-23 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
136_1_Decticus albifrons
314 s
David R. Ragge 1974-08-26 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
136_6_Decticus albifrons
427 s
David R. Ragge 1974-08-28 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
136_5 Decticus albifrons
227 s
2017-01-17 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
20 km E of Tekirdag, Turkey
15 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
field recording, 5/8/1984, 25.5°C, sunlight (Uher 4200IC with Uher M645, tape no. U39/84r)
25 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
413:1 Decticus albifrons (518)
469 s
W. J. Reynolds 1984-06-06 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
XC1166657 Decticus albifrons - calling song
63 s
João Ferreira Tomás 2026-08-14 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1054465 Decticus albifrons - calling song
20 s
Morten Bongers 2025-07-24 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1029335 Decticus albifrons - calling song
62 s
João Ferreira Tomás 2025-08-15 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1024255 Decticus albifrons - calling song
122 s
Angelos Bintirinis 2025-07-24 xeno-canto listen › record

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Specimens

Occurrences the recordings are of, in Darwin Core terms.

CatalogueInstitutionBasisSexLife stage
010210910NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010211092NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010211091NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010211000NHMUKPreservedSpecimen

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
iNaturalistDecticus albifronsSpeciesTettigoniidaeiNaturalist/127182
bio.acousti.caDecticus albifronsSpeciesTettigoniidaebio.acousti.ca/154

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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