Southern alpine horror
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| ( Targioni-Tozzetti , 1881) |
The southern alpine insect ( Anonconotus apenninigenus ) is a long- probe insect from the subfamily of the Tettigoniinae within the superfamily of the leaf locust . It was originally described under the scientific name Omalota apenninigena .
features
The southern alpine horror is very similar to the alpine terrestrial insect in physique and color. Your abdomen is thick and severely blunted at the back. The pronotum is elongated backwards, the head is relatively large. The lower legs of all pairs of legs have small spines. The coloration is very variable, but always very colorful and rich in contrast, which distinguishes it from the alpine terrasse. The lower head area is light beige to gray, the upper head is brown or dark gray, with a usually recognizable, black longitudinal band behind the eyes, which is interrupted by a light line pointing diagonally upwards. The top of the pronotum is brown or reddish, the side lobes are irregularly spotted black on a greenish or brown background. In the anterior part, the lateral lobes have a very broad, light whitish or yellowish border, the colored border between the edge and the pronotum lateral lobes is more or less blurred. The thorax is gray-green in color with black speckles and yellow bands and spots. The southern alpine terrestrial insect has strongly shortened wings, these are colored yellow and protrude a millimeter below the pronotum in the male, but not at all in the female. The staining from the sides of the pronotum continues in a black band on the sides of the abdomen and only ends at the tip of the abdomen. It can be coherent, but it can also be broken up into larger parts or small spots. The rest of the abdomen is colored gray-green, green or olive except for the beige underside. The legs are light brown to orange or reddish with dark joints, especially on the hind legs. The rear edge of the hind legs is yellow. The antennae are about body length and brown, the compound eyes are dark black-brown. The male has very short and thick cerci that curve inwards like hooks . The southern alpine hermit reaches a body length of 13 to 18 millimeters and is thus up to one centimeter shorter than the alpine insect, but can also be just as large at 18 millimeters. Another similar species is Anonconotus baracunensis from the Mont Viso region , which can only be distinguished from the southern alpine terrestrial species by genital morphology - but only as a male.
Way of life and distribution
The southern alpine insect inhabits rocky areas in the Alps . Its distribution area extends from the Apennines over the Italian and French southwestern Alps, east to the foothills of the Gran Paradiso massif, where the species is distributed at altitudes of over 2000 meters to altitudes of 2900 meters. If it occurs in the same areas as the alpine horror, it inhabits higher altitudes. The adults occur from August to September.
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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