Dalmatian saddle bush-cricket
The Dalmatian saddle bush-cricket is a chunky bush-cricket with a bright red patch on the back of its head. Its back is shaped like a little saddle. It lives on dry, rocky meadows in the mountains near the Adriatic Sea.
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Fun facts
Its colour changes a lot from one to another. Some are green and some are brownish.
The male sings, but much of his song is so high-pitched that people cannot hear it.
Its babies appear at the end of April, and the grown-ups are busiest in July and August.
It lives from the seashore up to about 1700 metres high in the mountains.
In 2023 scientists gave it its own group, and it is the only member of that group.
Most asked questions about Dalmatian saddle bush-cricket
?Where does the Dalmatian saddle bush-cricket live?
In the dry, rocky Dinaric mountains, from Italy and Slovenia to Croatia and Albania.
?Why is it called a saddle bush-cricket?
The shield on its back is shaped like a horse's saddle.
?Is the Dalmatian saddle bush-cricket dangerous?
No. It is a harmless bush-cricket.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dinarippiger discoidalis
- Named by
- Fieber, 1853
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Dinarippiger (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Petr Kouba. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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