Spalacomimus talpa

Spalacomimus talpa (Gerstaecker, 1869) Material examined: all TANZANIA, all Kilimanjaro Region: 1 male [CH 7699 (SR, SF, TI)], Mt Kilimanjaro, August/ September 2013, leg. C. Hemp; 1 male [CH7354 (SR, SF)], TANZANIA, Lake Chala Lodge, 1000 m, eastern slopes Mt Kilimanjaro, September 2010, leg. C. Hemp; 1 male (TI), Rau Forest near Moshi, August 2017, leg. C. Hemp; 1 male (TI), North Pare Mts, Lembeni, September 2015, leg. C. Hemp; 2 males, (CH 7626, CH 7625), March 2013, plantation belt southern slopes Mt Kilimanjaro, 1430 m, leg. C. Hemp. References: Hemp 2021 Bioacoustics. Tegmina (Fig. 3), stridulatory file (Table 1), and spectrum of the song (Fig. 6) do not show large differences to the typical Hetrodini pattern. The calling song consists of a long, uninterrupted trill (song type A) with a SRR of about 22 Hz (Fig. 10G; see Table 2). Genitalia. The genitalic sclerites are similar to that of S. stettinensis. However, the lateral sclerites are even larger than in this species and the titillator is pointed at the tip (Fig. 11D). Chromosomes: 2n = 24 (22 +XY), FN = 24; pair 1–11 and both sex chromosomes acrocentric [4 males described earlier (Warchałowska-Śliwa et al. 2015: CH 7354, CH 7525, CH 7626, CH 7699)]; thin C-positive paracentromeric bands in all chromosomes and an interstitial one on the long pair and the neo-Y chromosome.
Published as part of Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Chobanov, Dragan, Warchałowska-Śliwa, Elżbieta & Hemp, Claudia, 2022, Review of song patterns and sound production in armoured ground crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hetrodini) with karyological data and taxonomic notes, pp. 451-481 in Zootaxa 5120 (4) on page 474, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6392707
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