Listen to the sickle-bearing bush-cricket
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About the sickle-bearing bush-cricket
The sickle-bearing bush-cricket is a insect in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera).
What does the sickle-bearing 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
Phaneroptera falcata, the sickle-bearing bush-cricket, is a species of orthopteran belonging to the subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is mostly herbivorous and commonly measures 24 to 36 mm long. It lives mainly in warm scrub and grasslands areas, also on dry shrubbery and in sand pits and gardens.
Related insects in the genus Phaneroptera
More from the family Tettigoniidae
Great green bush-cricket
Tettigonia viridissima
Wart-biter
Decticus verrucivorus
Upland green bush-cricket
Tettigonia cantans
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 sickle-bearing bush-cricket sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the sickle-bearing 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 sickle-bearing bush-cricket belong to?
The sickle-bearing bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 439 11 Phaneroptera falcata 739r2 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 439 12 Phaneroptera falcata 739r4 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 440 4 Phaneroptera falcata 742r2 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 439 10 Phaneroptera falcata 739r1 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 440 3 Phaneroptera falcata 742r1 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 585 9 Phaneroptera falcata 841 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1064055 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Phaneroptera falcata – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Holger Krisp – CC BY 3.0