Listen to the Oak bush cricket
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About the Oak bush cricket
The Oak 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 Oak 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
Meconema thalassinum is an insect in the family Tettigoniidae known as the oak bush-cricket and drumming katydid. It is native to Europe, including the British Isles, and was introduced to the United States, first established in the west of Long Island and extending its range to Rhode Island and Scarsdale, Stony Brook, and Ithaca, New York.
Related insects in the genus Meconema
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
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 an Oak bush cricket sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the Oak 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 Oak bush cricket endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Oak bush cricket as “least concern”.
What family does the Oak bush cricket belong to?
The Oak bush cricket (Meconema thalassinum) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 390-1 Meconema thalassinum 326 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 375-7 Meconema thalassinum 323 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 375-9 Meconema thalassinum 324 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 375-10 Meconema thalassinum 325 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 375-8 Meconema thalassinum 323b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 390-2 Meconema thalassinum 327 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1500649 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Meconema thalassinum – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo – Attribution