Striped Bush-cricket

Leptophyes albovittata · Order: Orthoptera · Family: Tettigoniidae

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Striped Bush-cricket
Photo: carnifex, CC BY

The striped bush-cricket is a member of the Tettigoniidae family and the Phaneropterinae subfamily.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It belongs to the katydid family Tettigoniidae and the subfamily Phaneropterinae.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its range is Europe east of France and Spain, chiefly in the east, bounded on the west by the Würzburg-Nördlingen-Munich line.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Striped Bush-cricket photo 2
Photo: Emil Jantke, CC BY
Striped Bush-cricket photo 3
Photo: SteveM4560, CC BY
Striped Bush-cricket photo 4
Photo: Дауд Арсанукаев, CC BY
Striped Bush-cricket photo 5
Photo: Patrick Hacker, CC BY

Questions people ask

What does the striped bush-cricket eat?

It eats soft-leafed plants like chickweed, dandelion and Lathyrus.

Source: Wikipedia

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/Leptophyes_albovittata

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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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