Sepiana sepium

Species

530 recordings
11 trait measurements
1 references
2 specimens

Account

What the sources say about this taxon, as written.

behaviour · bio.acousti.ca

The calling song, heard both during the dy and at night, consists of disyllabic echemes repeated at the rate of about 4-15/s (depending on temperature), often grouped into short sequences of 2-4 echemes (Fig. 317, 318) but sometimes in long sequences of indefinite duration (Fig. 319, 320). Oscillographic analysis shows that opening hemisyllables are often present (though always very quiet) and that the closing hemisyllables usually last about 10-50 ms. The duration of each echeme (excluding the first opening hemisyllable, when present) is about 45-100 ms and the intervals between the echemes (within a group or during long sequences) are usually about 60-130 ms. There are no microsyllables.

this account at bio.acousti.ca

Acoustic traits

11 measurements across 8 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
Crepitation (Presence)AbsentMale; Femalebio.acousti.ca
AbsentMale; Femalebio.acousti.ca
Echemes Per Echeme Sequence2-4Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
IndefiniteCalling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Time Of Day Of CallDayCalling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
NightCalling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Echeme Interval0.060-0.130Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Syllable Duration (in Echeme)0.010-0.050Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Echeme Repetition Rate (Hz)4-15Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Echeme Duration0.045-0.100Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
bio.acousti.ca

Recordings

530 in audioBlast.

male from Denizkent, Balikesir, Turkey
7 s
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field recording, 18.30 h, 24.5°C (Uher 4200IC, tape no. U13g)
14 s
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lab recording, 30/7/1991, 24.5°C (Aiwa DAT with AKG D202, tape: SonyDT-60, tape no. D02:28.00-33.00, microphone filter below 100 Hz)
38 s
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lab recording, 23°C, 1/8/2015 (Zoom-H4 digital recorder, sample rate 96 kHz)
30 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
XC1157166 Sepia Bush-cricket (Sepiana sepium) - calling song
7 s
Maxence Fouillade 2026-07-14 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1157163 Sepia Bush-cricket (Sepiana sepium) - calling song
3 s
Maxence Fouillade 2026-07-14 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1095643 Sepia Bush-cricket (Sepiana sepium) - calling song
51 s
Julien Barataud 2025-09-08 xeno-canto listen › record
XC969547 Sepia Bush-cricket (Sepiana sepium) - calling song
49 s
Julien Barataud 2020-08-27 xeno-canto listen › record
XC969543 Sepia Bush-cricket (Sepiana sepium) - calling song
106 s
Julien Barataud 2020-08-28 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1172268 Sepia Bush-cricket (Sepiana sepium) - calling song
87 s
Cedric Mroczko 2026-08-11 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1172256 Sepia Bush-cricket (Sepiana sepium) - calling song
72 s
Cedric Mroczko 2026-08-11 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1169909 Sepia Bush-cricket (Sepiana sepium) - calling song
62 s
Cedric Mroczko 2026-08-10 xeno-canto listen › record

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Specimens

Occurrences the recordings are of, in Darwin Core terms.

CatalogueInstitutionBasisSexLife stage
010210884NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010210885NHMUKPreservedSpecimen

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.caPlatycleis sepiumSpeciesTettigoniidaebio.acousti.ca/206
bio.acousti.caSepiana sepiumSpeciesTettigoniidaebio.acousti.ca/728
iNaturalistSepiana sepiumSpeciesTettigoniidaeiNaturalist/780476

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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