Identification of Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, etc.)

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13.11.2010 15:23, DanMar

Still, Tessellana vittata If Tessellana is considered only a subgenus, then it is called Platycleis vittata - and this name is very even found.

Thank you... what a pity that I ask a lot of questions, I'm just very interested, I'm only in the 8th grade... I just want to catch a few new species of grasshoppers over the summer, shoot them, put photos in the collection, maybe somehow I'll learn how to breed them... of course, there is nothing like this on the Internet(grasshopper lovers club

), so I write only here.

Question:
- Where (landscape and conditions, as well as distribution) can ruspolia nitidula be found???
-Why gray (mottled grasshopper) in the Ukrainian polesie(Zhytomyr, Kiev region) I met it on the edges of the forest, while in large open meadows it was not???
Thanks for understanding.

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14.11.2010 2:14, Alex KNZ

The swordfish Ruspolia nitidula (Large Conehead) is known to be widespread in Western Europe and does not go only to the north (i.e., no further than about 55 n). I believe that moving to the east, taking into account the weakening influence of the Gulf Stream and lowering winter temperatures, the range of the species slides down, reaching in our territory southern Ukraine and southern Russia. In the east of Ukraine (48.9 n), it has never been found. That is, it spreads (I assume) no higher than 48 n. At the same time, it is rare in the north of its range. It is very common on the Azov and Black Sea coasts, and is common in the Crimea, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol, Kalmykia, and Dagestan. Likes (as we have already said) wet places, sometimes near reservoirs, shrubs, shady parks with thickets. It is easy to recognize the sound at night (very loud "metallic" rattling)...

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14.11.2010 16:33, PVOzerski

G. sshelkovnikovae looks very similar to Tettigonia viridissima - but the plantar lobes on the hind legs give it away with the head. Although a slight "netettigonistost" is felt immediately.

G. sedakovii-in Siberia, it goes far to the west and North (here on the forum its photos are posted from the forest tundra) - but there are doubts about the west of the Urals (except in the very east of the European part of Russia, you can search). The map is clearly incomplete (as they honestly warn you about, by the way).

G. glabra-very likely in the Ukrainian steppes, including the Crimea, as its range extends almost all over the south of Europe. It is also available in Asia. In Kyrgyzstan, these grasshoppers are kept in dense kurtins of the tall grass chiya (vaguely resembling reed or veynik), males chirp with loud long trills. Judging by the reviews of those who caught it, G. sedakovii also chirps very loudly.

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16.11.2010 15:49, Alex KNZ

In 2008, there was a white-fronted invasion in Crimea and southern Russia due to a supposedly favorable winter and warm, rainy spring. There were clouds of them. I was in the Crimea, in Feodosia in August 2007 - I didn't see or hear a single decticus albifrons!!! But the interesting thing is that there were a lot of decticus verrucivorus. So diapause exists and it is not at all clear what affects it and hatching, you need to investigate for a long time. I think you can cool it, but not much. A little about this is written in Fabre issue 1993, volume 2 (the whole chapter is the White-fronted Grasshopper). There the eggs lay for one winter, until the sand moistened and hatched. I don't say anything about the black stuff, but I don't know why they died so quickly. Maybe really from old age, the spring was very early..and then the stress of transportation. How did you transport them? I brought 3 males and 2 females to the Luhansk region last year, they lived for a total of 5 days, everything is fine, released =)
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/viridissima/view/92929/?page=0
I won't be lucky any more, it's a horror of some kind how they chatter, disturb people, do not let them sleep at night!!! The train conductor thought there was something wrong with the car!

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