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.
Source: Orthoptera Species File, lab recording, 40 kHz, 22 °C Habitat: It lives in bushes and trees. Distribution: Rather scarce, only a few observations from different regions (e.g. Budapest, Aggteleki-karszt, Mecsek).
Leptophyes punctatissima, male (Author: Gilles San Martin, source: flickr.com, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Leptophyes punctatissima, male (Author: Miklos Rapala, source: iNaturalist, CC BY NC)
Leptophyes punctatissima, female (Author: Pascal Dubois, source: iNaturalist, CC BY NC)