Speckled bush-cricket

Speckled bush-cricket

Taxobox
name = Speckled bush-cricket



image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Orthoptera
familia = Tettigoniidae
genus = "Leptophyes"
species = "L. punctatissima"
binomial = "Leptophyes punctatissima"
binomial_authority = (Bosc, 1792)
The speckled bush-cricket ("Leptophyes punctatissima") is a species of bush-cricket common in well vegetated areas of England and Wales, such as woodland margins, hedgerows and gardens.

Identification

The body is grass green in colour with the legs becoming brownish over the lower leg and feet. The entire body is minutely speckled black which gives rise to its common, and specific, name. The male's wings are reduced to small flaps whilst those of the female are represented by vestigial lobes. The female ovipositor is described as "sword-like" and curves sharply upwards. The song of the male is short ( 1 to 10 ms) and feeble, and at a frequency of 40 kHz can only be heard with the aid of a bat detector.

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