Oecanthus pellucens

Species

5,705 recordings
35 trait measurements
3 references
6 specimens

Account

What the sources say about this taxon, as written.

behaviour · bio.acousti.ca

The melodious song is a very loud 'tsrruu', audible from about 50m and produced mainly after dark.

this account at bio.acousti.ca

behaviour · bio.acousti.ca

Oecanthus pellucens (Scopoli, 1763) (Figs. 7; 14; 21) - this species calling song is very common and well known because it can be heard everywhere with exception of the mountains. The species stridulates at night and very rarely we can hear it singing during day time, usually in late autumn. Each echeme has a number of 25-40 hemisyllables and a 0.8-1.2 seconds length. Gaps between two successive echemes are 0.4-1 second long. In the warm nights, the gaps have a very small lenght, meanwhile in the colder autumn nights the gaps have a bigger length, sometimes up to more minutes. The pars stridens has approximately 1.5 mm (area with stridulatory pegs) and only 46 pegs.

this account at bio.acousti.ca

Acoustic traits

35 measurements across 19 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)3.23Callbio.acousti.ca
3Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
3.7Calling CallMale27bio.acousti.ca
2-3Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
3.0-3.5Calling CallMaleWarm Nightsbio.acousti.ca
3.1869140625-3.273046875Callbio.acousti.ca
Time Of Day Of CallNightCalling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
AfterDarkCalling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
EveningCalling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
NightCalling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Echeme Repetition Rate (Hz)>1.5Calling CallMale>25bio.acousti.ca
0.5-1.0Calling CallMale<20bio.acousti.ca
1.0-1.5Calling CallMale20-25bio.acousti.ca
Echeme Duration>1Calling CallMaleCool Nightsbio.acousti.ca
0.300-0.900Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
0.8-1.2Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Echeme Interval0.120-0.500Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
0.4-1.0Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
>1Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Syllable Repetition Rate (in echeme) (Hz)40-50Calling CallMaleVery Warm Nightsbio.acousti.ca
20-30Calling CallMaleCool Nightsbio.acousti.ca
Syllables per Echeme15-30Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
25-40Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Crepitation (Presence)AbsentMale; Femalebio.acousti.ca
Sound Production MethodElytral Stridulationbio.acousti.ca
Length Of Stridulatory File1.5Malebio.acousti.ca
Number Of Teeth On Stridulatory File46Malebio.acousti.ca
Song StructureEchemesCalling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Time Of Day Of Highest Acoustic ActivitySunrise-sunsetbio.acousti.ca
Frequency (kHz)2.5-3.5Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Syllable Duration (in Echeme)0.012-0.022Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Syllable Interval0.003-0.015Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Frequency Spectrum (50%) (kHz)3.19-3.27Callbio.acousti.ca
Frequency Spectrum (25%) (kHz)3.19-3.27Callbio.acousti.ca
Frequency Power Spectrum (50%)3.19-3.27Callbio.acousti.ca

Recordings

5,705 in audioBlast.

600:1 Oecanthus pellucens (14r1)
137 s
David R. Ragge 1967-07-24 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
899:23 Oecanthus pelluscens (1/4 speed) (112r20)
35 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
899:24 Oecanthus pelluscens (112r21)
37 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
135_5_Oecanthus pellucens
92 s
David R. Ragge 1974-08-25 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
565_21_Oecanthus pellucens
42 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
411:11 Oecanthus pellucens (508r4)
146 s
David R. Ragge 1983-08-06 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
429:12 Oecanthus pellucens (533a)
319 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
429:13 Oecanthus pellucens (533b)
320 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
XC1175053 Oecanthus pellucens - calling song
40 s
Clément Bruneau 2026-08-29 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1173051 Oecanthus pellucens - calling song
208 s
Cedric Mroczko 2026-08-15 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1169151 Oecanthus pellucens - calling song
150 s
João Ferreira Tomás 2026-08-16 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1161656 Oecanthus pellucens - calling song
57 s
Esperanza Poveda 2026-06-20 xeno-canto listen › record

5,693 more in the audioBlast browser.

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Specimens

Occurrences the recordings are of, in Darwin Core terms.

CatalogueInstitutionBasisSexLife stage
010211312NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010211313NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010211314NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010211315NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010211316NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010211317NHMUKPreservedSpecimen

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
bio.acousti.caOecanthus pellucensSpeciesGryllidaebio.acousti.ca/129
iNaturalistOecanthus pellucensSpeciesOecanthidaeiNaturalist/332307

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.

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