Speckled bush-cricket
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| Species: | L. punctatissima
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| Leptophyes punctatissima (Bosc, 1792)
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The speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) is a species of bush-cricket common in well vegetated areas of England and Wales, such as woodland margins, hedgerows and gardens.
Identification
The body is grass green in colour with the legs becoming brownish over the lower leg and feet. The entire body is minutely speckled black which gives rise to its common, and specific, name. The males wings are reduced to small flaps whilst those of the female are represented by vestigial lobes. The female ovipositor is described as "sword-like" and curves sharply upwards. Its song is short and feeble, and can only he heard with the aid of a bat detector.
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