Common sickle hedge
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Common sickle hedge ( Phaneroptera falcata ), female |
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The common sickle horror ( Phaneroptera falcata ) is a species from the subfamily of sickle horror (Phaneropterinae).
features
These leaf locusts grow to be 12 to 18 millimeters long. They have a green basic color, whereby the back and legs can also have a reddish-brown shimmer. The entire body is very finely dotted with dark spots. The antennae of the animals are about four times longer than the body. When viewed from the side, the females have a very broad, short, almost at right-angled upwards laying saber. The males have long and strongly curved cerci at the end of the abdomen. This species is, apart from the very similar four-spotted sickle hedge ( Phaneroptera nana ), which only flies in from southern Europe in the southern areas of Central Europe , the only Central European sickle insect that has fully developed wings. The front wings are about so long that they protrude slightly beyond the rear knee when placed backwards, the rear wings are a good bit longer ("parapter"). The side lobes of the pronotum are rounded and slightly longer than they are high. In addition to this characteristic, it also distinguishes its somewhat narrower body structure and the not so clearly pronounced dark speckles in color from the species similar to it.
Similar species
- Four-point sickle insect ( Phaneroptera nana ),
Occurrence
The animals are found in Central and Southern Europe. As a result of global warming, their spread has expanded enormously in recent years. The northernmost occurrences in Germany can now be found in Schleswig-Holstein and on Rügen. But they are sometimes missing in large parts, such as B. in the foothills of the Alps and in many parts of the Swabian Alb . You live in very warm areas, such as B. on bushy dry grass and in sand pits, even in garden-rich settlement areas.
Way of life
The adult animals are found from August to October. They feed polyphagously on various deciduous trees and shrubs, but mainly eat young shoots, but also berries and fruits.
singing
They chirp very softly, so you can only hear the singing up to a distance of about one meter. Their low chirping occurs especially at night. "Zb" sounds can be heard at irregular intervals.
development
The females lay their flattened eggs between the epidermis of the leaves of the forage plants. The larvae that hatch from it go through six larval stages, whereby they need a total of approx. 60 days for their development.
literature
- Fischer, Jürgen et al .: The locusts in Germany and North Tyrol: Determining - observing - protecting , Quelle & Meyer 2016, ISBN 978-3-494-01670-2
- Heiko Bellmann : Locusts: observe, determine , Naturbuch Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-894-40028-5
- Heiko Bellmann: grasshoppers. The voices of 61 native species. CD, Amp Europe 2004, ISBN 3-935-32948-2
- Siegfried Ingrisch, Günther Köhler: The locusts of Central Europe , Westarp Sciences 1998, ISBN 3-894-32461-9
- Peter Detzel: Locusts of Baden-Württemberg , Ulmer Verlag Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-800-13507-8
- Heinrich Tauscher: Our locusts , Kosmos Franckh'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-440-05617-1
Web links
- www.insektenbox.de
- Phaneroptera falcata at Fauna Europaea
- Phaneroptera falcata at Orthoptera.ch