Listen to the speckled bush-cricket
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About the speckled bush-cricket
The speckled 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 speckled 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
The speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) is a flightless species of bush-cricket belonging to the family Tettigoniidae. The species was originally described as Locusta punctatissima in 1792.
Related insects in the genus Leptophyes
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
Bog bush-cricket
Metrioptera brachyptera
Frequently asked questions
What does a speckled bush-cricket sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the speckled 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 speckled bush-cricket endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the speckled bush-cricket as “least concern”.
What family does the speckled bush-cricket belong to?
The speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 568 45 Leptophyes punctatissima 677r20 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 401-14 Leptophyes punctatissima 431c – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 401-13 Leptophyes punctatissima 431b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 401-21 Leptophyes punctatissima 434b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 401-27 Leptophyes punctatissima 438 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 401-20 Leptophyes punctatissima 434 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1757342 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Speckled bush-cricket – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Fritz Geller-Grimm – CC BY-SA 2.5