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Grey Bush-cricket  Platycleis albopunctata

female Grey Bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata), 1850 metres, Val-d'Isère, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Aug 2019

female Grey Bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata), Sandwich Bay, Kent, England, Sep 2020

female Grey Bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata), Sandwich Bay, Kent, England, Sep 2020

male Grey Bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata), Sandwich Bay, Kent, England, Sep 2020

Sandwich Bay, Kent,, England  51° 16' 59" N  01° 22' 44" E  5 September 2020

Calling song/stridulation from a male Grey Bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata) in low dune marram grassland close to the shoreline (also heard further inland in fixed dunes and on the golf course).

A long sequence of high-pitched echemes, consisting of two per second at 18°C. Each echeme consisting of 3-5 syllables, mostly 4). Largely inaudible to my ears, a bat detector set at 30kHz was essential in locating this cryptic orthopteran.

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Sandwich Bay, Kent,, England  51° 16' 59" N  01° 22' 44" E  5 September 2020

Oscillogram of calling song/stridulation from a male Grey Bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata) in low dune marram grassland close to the shoreline.

Indoor recording in terrarium  7 September 2020

Calling song/stridulation from a single captive male Grey Bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata) in a terrarium.

A long sequence of high-pitched echemes, consisting of one to two per second. Each echeme consisting of 4-5 syllables, mostly 5) (at 23.6°C ambient room temp, no heat lamp or direct sun).

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Indoor recording in terrarium  7 September 2020

Calling song/stridulation from a single captive male Grey Bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata) in a terrarium.

Grey Bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata) - stridulation heard through bat detector set at 30 kHz.

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