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Issue: Vol. 5209 No. 2: 16 Nov. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-11-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5209.2.4
Page range: 211-237
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Singing crickets from Brazil (Orthoptera: Gryllidea), an illustrated checklist with access to the sounds produced

Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Campus Universitário Capão do Leão s/n, RS, Brazil.
Centro Universitário CEUNI—FAMETRO, Unidade Sede, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Campus Universitário Capão do Leão s/n, RS, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Campus do Vale, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
4Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Biologia, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Departamento de Botânica e Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Rua Fernando Corrêa da Costa, 2367, Cuiabá, 78060-900, Brazil.
Centro universitário União Dinâmica de faculdades Cataratas, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brazil.
Fundação para o Vestibular da Universidade Estadual Paulista (VUNESP). Rua Dona Germaine Burchard, 515, Água Branca, CEP: 05002-062; São Paulo—SP, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Entomologia), Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19031, 81.531-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Campus Universitário Capão do Leão s/n, RS, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Genética, Campus do Vale, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Ecologia, Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul., Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Laboratório de Orthoptera, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná. Rua Universitária, nº. 2.069, Jardim Universitário, CEP 85.819-110, Cascavel, PR, Brasil.
Orthoptera Insect Bioacoustics Repertoire Calling song Sound library Phonothek

Abstract

The knowledge of bioacoustics of the Neotropical crickets (Orthoptera, Gryllidea) is incipient, despite the great species diversity in the region. There are few cricket song-files deposited in the major World Sound Libraries, compared to other groups such as birds and amphibians. In order to contribute to the knowledge of the bioacoustics of Brazilian crickets, we organize, analyze and make available at Fonoteca Neotropical Jacques Vielliard (FNJV) and Orthoptera Species File (OSF) our bank of cricket songs. We deposited 876 cricket’s song files in the FNJV, belonging to 31 species and 47 sonotypes. The songs were field/lab recorded, and all individuals were collected to improve species/sonotypes taxonomic determination accuracy. We present photos (in vivo) of most recorded crickets, as well as calling song spectrograms to facilitate the species/sonotype recognition. Samples of the songs can be found online on the FNJV website, using the codes available in this work, as well as on the OSF, linked to the species name. As a result, we advance the knowledge of the songs of crickets and the current perspective of the Brazilian cricket bioacoustics. We encourage researchers to share with the public their collections of their cricket file songs both in the FNJV and the OSF.

 

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