Dark floor grill
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Dark ground cricket ( Mogoplistes brunneus ) |
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The Dark Floor Grille ( Mogoplistes brunneus ) is a long horned grasshopper from the family of Mogoplistidae .
features
The animals reach a body length of six to eight millimeters. Their body is a single color black-brown and lightly hairy. Especially on the back half of the body, the crickets are silver and black, and the scales break off easily when touched. The head is noticeably extended forward between the antenna bases. The female is wingless, the fore wings ( tegmina ) of the male are strongly regressed and are completely covered by the long pronotum , which is significantly longer than it is wide. The ovipositor of the females only reaches a length of about two millimeters. The species is similar to the Pseudomogoplistes squamiger in its darker color, the longer pronotum, the distance between the antenna bases (in Mogoplistes brunneus three to four times as long as the length of the first antenna segment, in Pseudomogoplistes squamiger only twice as wide) and in the shorter ovipositor of the females distinguishable.
Occurrence and way of life
The dark ground cricket is spread from northeastern Spain , where it is very rare, across southern France and Italy (including Sicily and Sardinia) to Greece . It can be found on the ground in the grass or under foliage, where it leads a hidden way of life, especially in the fall foliage layer in forests.
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literature
- Heiko Bellmann: The Cosmos Locust Leader. Determine the species of Central Europe with certainty. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3440104478
Individual evidence
- ↑ K. Harz & R. Hess (1988): Mogoplistes brunneus Serville 1838 is not apter. Articulata Volume 3 Episode 2: 91-92.
- ↑ Norbert Grosser, Caroline Rey, André Rey: Locust identification key for the eastern southern Alps. Translation by Paolo Fontana, Filippo M. Buzzetti, Andrea Cogo (2002): Guida al riconoscimento e allo studio di cavallette, grilli, mantidi e insetti affini del Veneto.
- ↑ Jose-Manuel Grosso-Silva (2000): Contribuição para o conhecimento dos Grylloidea (Orthoptera, Ensifera) de Portugal. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 27: 87-89.
- ^ Josep Maria Olmo-Vidal (2006): Atlas of the Orthoptera of Catalonia. Atlas of biodiversity No. 1
- ↑ Heller, K.-G., Korsunovskaya, 0., Ragge, DR, Vedenina, V., Willemse, F., Zhantiev, RD & Frantsevich, L. (1998): Check-List of European Orthoptera. Articulata, Supplement 7: 1-61.