Listen to the Pholidoptera aptera
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About the Pholidoptera aptera
The Pholidoptera aptera is a insect in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the Pholidoptera aptera 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 aptera, the alpine dark bush-cricket, is a species of a cricket belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae. It is found in Eastern and Central Europe in the Alps and the Alpine foothills. In Switzerland, their presence limited to the eastern Alps, the Southern Alps and the Schaffhauser Randen. In Germany, it occurs south of the line Bodensee, to southern Munich. It also occurs in Austria and Slovenia. It is found at altitudes from 260 to 2360 meters above sea level in densely forested clearings or clearcuts, high-altitude orchards, bracken slopes, rocky, dwarf shrub communities and areas densely populated with grasses and herbaceous plants. At high altitudes, warm southern slopes are preferred.
Related insects in the genus Pholidoptera
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
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
Frequently asked questions
What does a Pholidoptera aptera sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the Pholidoptera aptera 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 Pholidoptera aptera endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Pholidoptera aptera as “least concern”.
What family does the Pholidoptera aptera belong to?
The Pholidoptera aptera (Pholidoptera aptera) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 594 11 Pholidoptera aptera 845r4 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 423-10 Pholiodoptera aptera 601r4 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1414956 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Pholidoptera aptera – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Daniel Baránek – CC BY-SA 3.0