Humped spotted insect
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| Poecilimon ampliatus | ||||||||||||
| Brunner von Wattenwyl , 1878 |
The humped cichlid ( Poecilimon ampliatus ) is a long- feeler insect from the subfamily of sickle insects within the family of leaf locusts .
features
The hunched spotted insect has a strong build. Their thorax is less saddle-shaped than that of the other Poecilimon species, and it is not as far extended backwards. The antennae are slightly longer than the body, the legs have spines on the lower legs. The wings are tiny in the male, in the female they are covered by the thorax. In terms of color, it is similar to the petite and the little spotted insect . As with these, the basic color is light green. The edge of the sides of the pronotum is white to light yellow. There are three brown longitudinal stripes or elongated spots across the back of the thorax. The body is covered with small reddish dots. The wings are light brown to olive green. The male can be distinguished from the aforementioned types of confusion by a black spot on the front abdomen directly behind the pronotum.
Way of life and distribution
The humped spotted insect is found mainly on low herbaceous plants. It lives in heavily overgrown mountain meadows and often shares its habitat with other species of the genus such as B. the southern great insect . It occurs from Romania via Albania , Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatia . The adults appear from June to July.
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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
Web links
- Orthoptera Species File
- Poecilimon ampliatus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Heller, K.-G. & Danielczak, A., 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2013.