Common nasal terror
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Common nasal insect ( Acrida ungarica ) |
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The common nasal insect ( Acrida ungarica ) is a short- antennae insect from the family of field locusts (Acrididae).
features
The animals are between 30 and 60 millimeters long and have a slim build. They are usually green or brown in color. Some animals have high-contrast drawings (e.g. in the picture: light brown on green). Its elongated, narrow head, with the upper part with the eyes shifted far forward, is characteristic. Their antennae are also flat and tapering at the end. Another important feature is the long and narrow hind legs.
Common nasal terror on a house wall
Well camouflaged common nasal insect in an olive grove (juvenile)
Occurrence and way of life
They are the only common and common nasal terror species in the European Mediterranean countries . In Central Europe they only occur in the Hungarian lowlands and in the east of Austria . Common nasal horrors live mainly in very dry locations, such as B. on sparsely vegetated fallow land. Adult animals can be found from July to October. They feed on phytophagus .
literature
- H. Bellmann: Locusts - observe, determine. Naturbuch Verlag, Augsburg 1993, ISBN 3-89440-028-5
- Georg Heinrich Borowski (ed.): Non-profit natural history of the animal kingdom. Vol. 7: Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst: From the insects. Berlin & Stralsund 1786.
- Fer Willemse : The Catalog of the Orthoptera of Greece. Fauna Graeciae, Vol. 1. Athens 1984.
Web links
- Acrida ungarica at Fauna Europaea