''Phaneroptera falcata'', the sickle-bearing
bush-cricket, is a species of
Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...
ns belonging to the subfamily
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 in 2015.]
References
External links
Sound recordings of ''Phaneroptera falcata'' on BioAcoustica
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Phaneropterinae
Insects described in 1761
Orthoptera of Europe
Taxa named by Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus