Alpine Dark Bush-cricket

Pholidoptera aptera · Order: Orthoptera · Family: Tettigoniidae

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Alpine Dark Bush-cricket
Photo: Harald Süpfle, CC BY-SA

The alpine dark bush-cricket belongs to the subfamily Tettigoniinae. It lives from 260 to 2360 m in forest clearings, orchards, bracken slopes, rocky dwarf-shrub areas and grassy herbaceous sites. Its range includes the Alps and Alpine foothills of eastern and central Europe.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It is a cricket species in the subfamily Tettigoniinae.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Occurs in eastern and central Europe, especially the Alps and Alpine foothills.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Alpine Dark Bush-cricket photo 3
Photo: Haeferl, CC BY-SA
Alpine Dark Bush-cricket photo 4
Photo: Makro Freak, CC BY-SA
Alpine Dark Bush-cricket photo 5
Photo: Kurt Kulac, CC BY-SA

Same family (Tettigoniidae)

Great Green Bush-cricketGreat Green Bush-cricketTettigonia viridissimaCan biteDark Bush-cricketDark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoapteraMediterranean KatydidMediterranean KatydidPhaneroptera nanaDamages trees, gardens or cropsFork-tailed Bush KatydidFork-tailed Bush KatydidScudderia furcataDamages trees, gardens or cropsSpeckled Bush-cricketSpeckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissimaRoesel's Bush-cricketRoesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholidoptera_aptera

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Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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