Metrioptera brachyptera

Species

519 recordings
18 trait measurements
5 annotations
2 references
3 specimens

Account

What the sources say about this taxon, as written.

behaviour · bio.acousti.ca

The song closely resembles Platycleis albopunctata. There are usually three syllables grouped together into a short chirp ('tsrit'), produced in long sequences, audible from c. 2m.

this account at bio.acousti.ca

behaviour · bio.acousti.ca

..the males do sometimes sing while moving around over more exposed patches of scrub (see DVD). The males sing throughout the day, and will often sng in overcast conditions. Their song is a short chirp, repeated at a variable rate of 2 to 6 chirps per second. It is rather quiet, and for many people a bat detector is the best way of locating the males.

this account at bio.acousti.ca

behaviour · bio.acousti.ca

In warm sunshine the calling song consists of long sequences of echemes repeated regularly at the rate of 4-7/s. Oscillographic analysis shows that each echeme normally consists of four syllables but, as the first syllable is usually short and often very quiet, the echemes are frequently described as being trisyllabic. Opening hemisyllables are usually present, though often quiet; the fore wings are held in an open position betweene chemes, so taht there is no opening hemisyllable before the first (quiet) closing syllable of each echeme but, most unusually for a tettigoniid song, there is usally an opening hemisyllable after the last closing hemisyllable. The closing hemisyllables usually last about 15-20 ms and are repeated within an echeme at the rate of about 35-55/s. The duration of a single echeme is about 75-120 ms and the interval between two successibve echemes is about 65-110 ms. In dull weather and at night the echeme repetiton rate can drop to as low as 2/s and the syllable repetition rate to 10/s; in such conditions the closing hemisyllables (of which the first is often louder than at higher temperatures) sometimes last as long as 90 ms and an echeme 400 ms or more. Under any conditions the echemes are very unifrom in structure and there are no microsyllables.

this account at bio.acousti.ca

Acoustic traits

18 measurements across 13 traits. Each name links to its term in the audioBlast vocabulary.

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
Peak Frequency (kHz)14Callbio.acousti.ca
12.05859375-15.676171875Callbio.acousti.ca
HemisyllableDurationFinal<0.090Calling Call (cold)Malebio.acousti.ca
0.015-0.020Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Syllable Repetition Rate (in echeme) (Hz)>10Calling Call (cold)Malebio.acousti.ca
35-55Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Echeme Duration<0.400Calling Call (cold)Malebio.acousti.ca
0.075-0.120Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Echeme Repetition Rate (Hz)>2Calling Call (cold)Malebio.acousti.ca
4-7Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Crepitation (Presence)AbsentMale; Femalebio.acousti.ca
Syllables per Echeme4Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Sound Propagation Distance (m)2Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Frequency (kHz)20-30bio.acousti.ca
Time Of Day Of Highest Acoustic Activity0900-sunsetbio.acousti.ca
Echeme Interval0.065-0.110Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Frequency Spectrum (50%) (kHz)11.89-16.88Callbio.acousti.ca
Frequency Spectrum (25%) (kHz)10.03-17.4Callbio.acousti.ca

Recordings

519 in audioBlast.

597:5 Metrioptera brachyptera (003r3)
127 s
David R. Ragge 1957-08-30 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
897:13 Metrioptera brachyptera (71)
434 s
J. F. Burton; G. F. Wade 1962-08-23 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
899:16 Metrioptera brachyptera (112r13)
21 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
900:3 Metrioptera brachyptera (118r2)
45 s
W. J. Reynolds 1974-08-06 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
991:6 Metrioptera brachyptera (171r1)
73 s
David R. Ragge 1976-07-29 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
565_16_Metrioptera brachyptera
46 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
31 Bog Bush-cricket
29 s
2016-03-12 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
lab recording, August 1979, 22°C (Uher, tape no. CS_U08R, 500 Hz high pass filter)
36 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
lab recording, 14/8/1990, 27°C, 60 W bulb for heat (Kenwood KX880HX with AKG D202, tape: S-MES90, tape no. KW29:18.30-24.30, microphone filter below 100 Hz)
30 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
XC1178783 Bog Bush-cricket (Metrioptera brachyptera) - calling song
60 s
Victor Aleksanov 2026-08-15 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1174901 Bog Bush-cricket (Metrioptera brachyptera) - calling song
20 s
Albert Lastukhin 2026-08-29 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1163491 Bog Bush-cricket (Metrioptera brachyptera) - calling song
14 s
Gilles San Martin 2026-07-25 xeno-canto listen › record

507 more in the audioBlast browser.

Annotations

Regions of a recording marked as this taxon, by a person or by an algorithm.

RecordingFromToTypeAnnotatorRecord
111110.32257324.35522Voice IntroductionEdward Bakerview
1111126.3164639.12897CallEdward Bakerview
1111139.1567545.57333Extraneous NoiseEdward Bakerview
111220.71541130.69237Voice IntroductionEdward Bakerview
1112234.1502870.50537Call (with extraneous noise)Edward Bakerview

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Specimens

Occurrences the recordings are of, in Darwin Core terms.

CatalogueInstitutionBasisSexLife stage
010211034NHMUKLivingSpecimenMaleAdult
010211033NHMUKLivingSpecimenMaleAdult
010210747NHMUKLivingSpecimenMaleAdult

References

Publications audioBlast links to this taxon.

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
iNaturalistMetrioptera brachypteraSpeciesTettigoniidaeiNaturalist/154672
bio.acousti.caMetrioptera brachypteraSpeciesTettigoniidaebio.acousti.ca/319

Machine-readable

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