Listen to the Sword-bearing Conehead
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About the Sword-bearing Conehead
The Sword-bearing Conehead is a insect in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera).
What does the Sword-bearing Conehead 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
Neoconocephalus ensiger, known generally as the sword-bearing conehead or swordbearer, is a species of conehead in the family Tettigoniidae. It is found in North America.
Related insects in the genus Neoconocephalus
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
Speckled bush-cricket
Leptophyes punctatissima
Bog bush-cricket
Metrioptera brachyptera
Frequently asked questions
What does a Sword-bearing Conehead sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the Sword-bearing Conehead 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 Sword-bearing Conehead belong to?
The Sword-bearing Conehead (Neoconocephalus ensiger) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- Sword-bearing Conehead (Neoconocephalus ensiger) - Guelph, Ontario 2020-07-26 by Ryan Hodnett – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q10596903 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Neoconocephalus ensiger – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Marlo Perdicas – CC BY 4.0