Southern shrimp
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Leptophyes laticauda (male) |
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| ( Frivaldszky , 1867) |
The southern tender shrimp ( Leptophyes laticauda ) belongs to the subfamily of sickle hornets within the suborder of the long- feeler terrors .
features
The southern shrimp resembles the spotted shrimp in its physique . Your abdomen is thick, the pronotum saddle-shaped. Their wings are greatly shortened and the brownish antennae are about body length. The basic color is light green. A light yellow band runs from the eye to the rear edge of the pronotum. The body is covered with small dark points and thus appears darker. The wings are red-brown, the lower legs of all pairs of legs are light brown in color. On the upper side of the abdomen there is a broad, brown to purple longitudinal band, which often consists of dark triangles lying on individual segments. The male's cerci run straight back and are curved like a hook at the tip. The female has a 12 millimeter long, curved ovipositor . Both sexes reach a length of 16 to 20 millimeters. This makes the southern shrimp the largest species of the genus Leptophyes .
Way of life and distribution
The southern shrimp can be found mainly on their food plants blackberries and nettles . It lives on shady and damp forest edges. Its distribution area extends from Croatia over the Italian Alpine foothills and southern Switzerland to Graubünden and Ticino , where it occurs frequently, in the south to Provence . The adults occur from July to September.
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