Listen to the large saw-tailed bush-cricket
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About the large saw-tailed bush-cricket
The large saw-tailed bush-cricket is a insect in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the large saw-tailed 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
Polysarcus denticauda is a species of insect belonging to the family Tettigoniidae subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is found in Spain, France, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, European Turkey, Switzerland and Bulgaria. The habitat is long grass meadows with lush vegetation. Such meadows should be mowed late and fertilized only slightly.
More from the family Tettigoniidae
Great green bush-cricket
Tettigonia viridissima
Wart-biter
Decticus verrucivorus
Upland green bush-cricket
Tettigonia cantans
Sickle-bearing bush-cricket
Phaneroptera falcata
Dark bush-cricket
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Short-winged cone-head
Conocephalus dorsalis
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
Long-winged conehead
Conocephalus fuscus
Frequently asked questions
What does a large saw-tailed bush-cricket sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the large saw-tailed 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.
Is the large saw-tailed bush-cricket endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the large saw-tailed bush-cricket as “least concern”.
What family does the large saw-tailed bush-cricket belong to?
The large saw-tailed bush-cricket (Polysarcus denticauda) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 404-4 Polysarcus denticauda 460 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 404-2 Polysarcus denticauda 459b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 403-15 Polysarcus denticauda 458b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 404-3 Polysarcus denticauda 459c – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 403-16 Polysarcus denticauda 458c – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 403-14 Polysarcus denticauda 458 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q2548536 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Polysarcus denticauda – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium – CC BY-SA 2.0