Acheta domesticus

Acheta domestica (Linné, 1758) (Figs. 2; 9; 16) - the calling song is composed from echemes of 2-3 hemisyllables, each echeme having 0.2 seconds. Gaps between echemes are variable between 0.8 and 1 second at 27oC. The species stridulates especially in the summer, though adults can be found all year long. It stridulates at night and the stridulation can be heared from over 10-15 meters. The pars stridens has approximately 3.1 mm (area with stridulatory pegs) and 171 pegs. [1]

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