Leptophyes punctatissima - Common Speckled Bush-cricket
(Bosc, 1792)
Description: Ground colour is yellowish green, abdomen without light stripe (♂ 11-13 mm, ♀ 13-17 mm). The pronotum is conspicuously short, without a light margin. The male cerci are thin and curved inwards. Ovipositor (7-8.5 mm) is not as curved as by L. albovittata.
Similar species: Leptophyes albovittata
Adults: from June to September
Song: Sings from afternoon till night. The faint chirps are unhearable for humans and produced with 2 to 10 sec. intervals. The frequency maximum is between 30 and 50 kHz.