Eupholidoptera chabrieri
Eupholidoptera chabrieri (females )
The Green Bush Cricket ( Eupholidoptera chabrieri ) is a long horned grasshopper of the subfamily of Tettigoniinae within the superfamily of katydids. It distinguishes seven subspecies, in which there was disagreement about the validity of these taxa long time.
Features
The Green Bush Cricket can be easily distinguished by their physique and their coloring from other Central European Ensifera, but come on the southern Balkan Peninsula and in Italy, partly very similar species of the genus Eupholidoptera ago. The species is strikingly leggy, has a thick abdomen and a flat, extended far to the rear neck plate. This covers about half of the tiny dark brown wings. The lower legs of all pairs of legs bear small spines, which are on the front pairs of legs further apart. The sensor being longer than the body. The basic color of the grasshopper is green to light green and yellow-green. To pull various black markings on the body. From the sensor bases up on the pronotum posterior margin runs a broad, often resolved primarily on the head and pronotum in front stains band defining a yellow-green throat plate edge side tabs. The belly is flesh colored. All legs have a pattern of black dots, one of which is particularly striking that of the rear leg. There are thin horizontal stripes, which are interrupted by a light green leg centerline. The hinge regions of the legs are dark colored. The lower legs are often sold gray or brown from the rest of the body. The last segment of the abdomen is black in color. The compound eyes are dark brown. The body coloration, especially the pattern may differ depending on the subspecies. The female has a slightly curved ovipositor, which is slightly shorter than the body. The Green Bush Cricket reaches a body length of 20 to 30 mm.
Lifestyle and dissemination
The singing of the Green Bush Cricket consists of short, high-frequency single sounds, which are usually presented at a distance of a few seconds in series.
It inhabits forest edges, clearings and scrub and can be found there on shrubs, primarily on prickly or thorny plants. She is very agile and hides quickly in case of danger in the thorn bushes, so it is hard to catch. Their range extends from the Balkans to Italy and southern France. They lack both in Austria and in Germany, its northernmost deposits are located in South Tyrol and in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The adults occur from July to September.
System
The Green Bush Cricket was originally described under the scientific name Locusta chabrieri. The species was assigned to the genera Pterolepis, Thamnotrizon and Pholidoptera by some authors, some subspecies have been managed as separate species or as subspecies found to no longer valid species, such as E. c. bimucronata to today no longer recognized type Pholidoptera schmidti, or Eupholidoptera schmidti (now Eupholidoptera chabrieri schmidti ).
So far, the following sub- types can be distinguished:
- E. c. chabrieri - ( Charpentier, 1825) - Switzerland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia and Bulgaria
- E. c. bimucronata - ( Ram, 1927) - Sicily and surrounding islands
- E. c. brunneri - ( Targioni - Tozzetti, 1881) - Italy and surrounding islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea
- E. c. galvagnii - Adamovic, 1972 - Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro and Macedonia
- E. c. garganica - La Greca, 1959 - Italy and surrounding islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea
- E. c. schmidti - ( Fever, 1861) - South and South-East Europe and the Mediterranean islands
- E. c. usi - Adamovic, 1972 - Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro and Macedonia
Synonyms of the subspecies E. c. brunneri are beybienkoi, marani and malachiticus. Synonyms of the subspecies E. c. schmidti are kaltenbachi and magnifica.