Here we represent typical calling songs of 9 species od cicadas, 8 of them found in Slovenia and 1 - Cicadetta mediterranea - living on the nearby coast of Southern Istria near Pula (Croatia).
Due to high frequencies in the songs of some species we use here the sound files with the high sampling rate of 48 kS/s. If you can not play back sounds with the same rate use the lower sampling rate but be aware, that the sounds are slightly slowed down and lowered in pitch.
In latin names of species we use here the terminology of
Wolfgang Schedl from Innsbruck (1986), Zool. Jahrb. Syst.,
You can look at the detailed pictures of cicadas in JPEG format by
clicking the icons or highlighted JPG information "JPG,...KB" and
listen to the sounds in SUN/NEXT format by clicking the "au,...KB"
In the carstic region one can hear and find the smaller
(JPG, 19KB)Tettigetta argentata (Olivier 1790)(AU, 102KB).
(JPG, 14KB) The song of Tettigetta brullei (Fieber 1876)
(=pygmea (Olivier 1790)) (AU,
169KB) and (AU, 174KB)
has most energy in the spectral range between 16 and 20 kHz (see sonogram below)
and can therefore be heard without the aid of an ultrasonic detector only in
a close range (up to 1 or 2 m). It's song is described in details in Acta entomologica slovenica 5(2): 89-101 (1997).
JPG, 31KBCicadetta dimissa (Hagen 1856) (AU, 265KB) has a complex repeated song pattern, and can be heard with unaided ear. Songs have been described in Acta entomologica slovenica 8(1): 7-20.
(JPG, 10KB)Cicadetta mediterranea Fieber 1876 has two different phrases (1, 2) (AU, 224KB) and (AU, 213KB). This species can be found on grass and other green plants locally in the coastal region of Southern Istria. A paper describing it's song in details appeared in Acta entomologica slovenica 5(1): 11-24 (1997).
The species complex which can be found
also in the colder parts of Europe and Slovenia is
(JPG, 18KB) Cicadetta montana (Scopoli 1772). (AU, 266KB).
In Slovenia one can find and hear 3 closely related taxa of mountain cicadas with different songs, which will be also presented here in the near future.
Another small species with two types of high pitched song is
(JPG, 21KB)Cicadivetta tibialis (Panzer 1798). The temporal pattern of the first song (AU, 340KB) resembles that of C. mediterranea but the second song has very different and simpler structure (AU, 149KB). A detailed description of the song of this species has been published in Acta entomologica slovenica 4(2): 45-62 (1996).
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