''Phaneroptera falcata'', the sickle-bearing

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Phaneropterinae The Phaneropterinae, the sickle-bearing bush crickets or leaf katydids, are a subfamily of insects within the family Tettigoniidae. Nearly 2,060 species in 85 genera throughout the world are known. They are also known as false katydids or round-h ...

. It is herbivorous and commonly measures 24 to 36 mm long. It lives mainly in very warm scrub and grasslands areas, also on dry shrubbery and in sand pits and gardens.

Distribution

''Phaneroptera falcata'' occurs in central and southern Europe, with the northern distribution limit about Cologne. But they are absent in the Alpine foothills and in many parts of the Swabian Alps. ''Phaneroptera falcata'' has been extending the northern limits of its range in mainland Europe in recent decades. Vagrant adults are occasionally found in Britain, and a small, but apparently established, colony was discovered near Dungeness in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

in 2015.

References

External links

Sound recordings of ''Phaneroptera falcata'' on BioAcoustica
{{Taxonbar, from=Q1064055 Phaneropterinae Insects described in 1761 Orthoptera of Europe Taxa named by Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus