Listen to the dark bush-cricket
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About the dark bush-cricket
The dark bush-cricket is a insect in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera).
What does the dark bush-cricket sound like?
Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
From Wikipedia
Pholidoptera griseoaptera, the dark bush-cricket, is a flightless species of European bush-cricket; it is the type species of its genus with no subspecies.
Related insects in the genus Pholidoptera
More from the family Tettigoniidae
Great green bush-cricket
Tettigonia viridissima
Wart-biter
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Upland green bush-cricket
Tettigonia cantans
Sickle-bearing bush-cricket
Phaneroptera falcata
Short-winged cone-head
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Roesel's bush-cricket
Metrioptera roeselii
Oak bush cricket
Meconema thalassinum
Sierra Nevadan Saddle Bush-cricket
Baetica ustulata
Speckled bush-cricket
Leptophyes punctatissima
Bog bush-cricket
Metrioptera brachyptera
Frequently asked questions
What does a dark bush-cricket sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the dark bush-cricket on this page. Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
What family does the dark bush-cricket belong to?
The dark bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.