Dear all, please help me identify this criter! When I was walking with my nephew in the evening I said I want to add the new insect to theBugFiles. So he didn't hesitate to help me and found this unknown to me "grasshoper", which, despite his ugly look was kind enough to pose in front of my camera on the stone near my house in Sochi.
This insect is in the family Tettigoniidae (long-horned grasshoppers), of a type known as shield-back crickets or shield-back katydids. The sword-like apparatus is its ovipositor.
Suunto, thank's a lot for identification!!! Do you consider those as pests, or we can just enjoy the music they produce in the tranquility of the southern nights?lol.
I'm not sure about Russian species, but some North American ones in the genus Anabrus ('Mormon crickets') can be pests.
Suunto, LoL! The 'Mormon crickets' make me laugh! I just imagined those munching diligently on Mormons' crop!
How about Pholidoptera griseoaptera (Dark Bush-cricket)
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P2/P26053.php
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Pholidoptera%20griseoaptera&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
Wallaby, looks like you have the same species in UK.
Thank's a lot, looks like we have solved it!
Yes KG, it seems we have many creatures which are within a similar latitude across Europe, people included, lol. You can mark the thread as 'solved'.
