Hardwood Saber Insect
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Hardwood saber-hoppers ( Barbitistes serricauda ), ♂ |
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The hardwood saber-hoppers ( Barbitistes serricauda ) is a species from the superfamily of the hardwood locusts (Tettigonioidea) in the subordination of the long-feeler terrors (Ensifera).
description
The hardwood saber-insect is about 15 to 20 mm long and has strongly regressed, red-brown wings. A yellow longitudinal stripe runs from the antenna base to these stub wings. The laying saber of the female is broadly sickle-shaped in side view and at the end usually with - eponymous - sawn contour. The male has red legs. The antennae are about two to three times as long as the body. There is a risk of confusion with the spotted shrimp ( Leptophyes punctatissima ).
Similar species
- Coniferous saber-hedge ( Barbitistes constrictus )
Way of life
The adults can be found on sunny forest edges and bushes from July to September. They are mostly nocturnal. While the larvae are still moving on the ground, the adults live in treetops. Their singing, the stridulation , can only be heard over short distances with the naked ear.
distribution
The hardwood saber-hedge is widespread in southern Central Europe, but is also found in Belgium and in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony in Germany, for example . Because it is difficult to find, its distribution is poorly documented; it is on the red list in several German states .
literature
- Heiko Bellmann: Locusts: observe, determine. Naturbuch Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-89440-028-5 .
- Heiko Bellmann: grasshoppers. The voices of 61 native species. CD, Amp Europe, 2004, ISBN 3-935329-48-2 .
- Siegfried Ingrisch, Günther Köhler: The locusts of Central Europe. Westarp Sciences, 1998, ISBN 3-89432-461-9 .
- Peter Detzel: Locusts in Baden-Württemberg. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8001-3507-8 .
- Josef Szij: Europe's jumping horrors. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 652). Westarp Sciences, Hohenwarsleben 2004, ISBN 3-89432-910-6 .
- Heinrich Tauscher: Our locusts. Kosmos Franckh'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-440-05617-1 .
- Michael Lohmann: Beetles, dragonflies and other insects. BLV, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-405-14727-1 .
