Listen to the striped bush-cricket
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About the striped bush-cricket
The striped bush-cricket is a insect in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera).
What does the striped 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
Leptophyes albovittata is a species belonging to the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is found in Europe east of France and Spain. mainly in Eastern Europe. To the west, the border runs along the line Würzburg-Nördlingen-Munich. The species feeds on delicate and soft-leaved plants, such as chickweed, dandelion and Lathyrus.
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 striped bush-cricket sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the striped 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 striped bush-cricket belong to?
The striped bush-cricket (Leptophyes albovittata) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 401-25 Leptophyes albovittata 436 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 401-17 Leptophyes albovittata 432c – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 401-24 Leptophyes albovittata 435c – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 401-16 Leptophyes albovittata 432b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 401-19 Leptophyes albovittata 433b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 401-23 Leptophyes albovittata 435b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q174160 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Leptophyes albovittata – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by No machine-readable author provided. Blaz~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). – CC BY 2.5