Listen to the mottled grasshopper
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About the mottled grasshopper
The mottled grasshopper is a insect in the family Acrididae (order Orthoptera).
What does the mottled grasshopper 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
Myrmeleotettix maculatus is a species belonging to the subfamily Gomphocerinae and may be called the mottled grasshopper. It is found across the Palearctic east to Siberia. In the north, it is spread from the British Isles to Scandinavia and Russia, north to about the Arctic Circle, in the south to Morocco, over the south of Spain, Calabria and Greece to Turkey. They are found from sea level to about 2,500 meters above sea level, for example in the French Alps and the Balkans.
More from the family Acrididae
Migratory locust
Locusta migratoria
Large gold grasshopper
Chrysochraon dispar
Rattle grasshopper
Psophus stridulus
Bow-winged grasshopper
Chorthippus biguttulus
Common green grasshopper
Omocestus viridulus
Small gold grasshopper
Euthystira brachyptera
Common field grasshopper
Chorthippus brunneus
Lesser marsh grasshopper
Chorthippus albomarginatus
Large marsh grasshopper
Stethophyma grossum
Dociostaurus maroccanus
Dociostaurus maroccanus
Rufous grasshopper
Gomphocerippus rufus
Stripe-winged grasshopper
Stenobothrus lineatus
Frequently asked questions
What does a mottled grasshopper sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the mottled grasshopper 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 mottled grasshopper belong to?
The mottled grasshopper (Myrmeleotettix maculatus) belongs to the family Acrididae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 425 2 Myrmeleotettix maculatus 605r6 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 571 7 Myrmeleotettix maculatus hispanicus 717r64 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 411 16 Myrmeleotettix maculatus hispanicus 509r3 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 563 10 Myrmeleotettix maculatus 763r5 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 420-1 Myrmeleotettix maculatus hispanicus 580a – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 583 10 Myrmeleotettix maculatus 813r2 9-Jan – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1498018 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Myrmeleotettix maculatus – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium – CC BY-SA 2.0