21 s of calling song, male from Neshoba County, Miss., 26.0°C. Dominant frequency 4.8 kHz. (WTL479-12)
This spectrogram is a 2 s excerpt of the 21 s audio file accessible above. The excerpt begins at 0.5 s.
5 s of courtship song, male from Austin, Tex. Recording by D. A. Gray; used by permission.
This spectrogram is a 2 s excerpt of the 75 s audio file accessible above. The excerpt begins at 2 s.
Song:
Weissman and Gray (2019) described the song as a trill with a pulse rate between 70 and 80 at 25°C.
Identification:
This species was long but wrongly known as G. integer. The real G. integer is a western species that is less similar to "Texas integer" (now G. texensis) than is G. rubens. In fact, males of G. texensis and G. rubens are thus far impossible to distinguish morphologically. Some females can be identified by the lengths of their ovipositors (Gray et al. 2001). The calling songs of G. texensis usually have shorter, more regular trills than those of G. rubens, but in places where both species occur, the only way to reliably distinguish their songs is by their pulse rates—after the rates have been adjusted for temperature effects. Even though the two species readily hybridize in the laboratory, they maintain their integrity in the field (Walker 1998, 2000). A key to the adult males of native US Gryllus is in Weissman and Gray (2019).
