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Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket  Phaneroptera nana

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) - male, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, 6 Sep 2023

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) - female, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, 6 Sep 2023

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) - male, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, 25 Sep 2023

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana), Villevaudé, Paris, Île-de-France, Aug 2019

Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England  6 September 2023

Calling song/stridulation from a male Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) in riverside browfield site with Buddleia (Buddleja davidii), Bramble (Rubus fruticosus) and Traveller's Joy (Clematis vitalba) at 19:30h (23°C). 

A single, faint, largely ultrasonic syllable repeated every 0.8 seconds. Mostly inaudible to my ears, except at very close range with microphone right next to the insect (much louder with bat detector set to 16-20 kHz). This male started singing from a Bramble leaf just before sunset and attracted a female within a few minutes, with copulation following immediately.

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Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England  6 September 2023

Oscillogram of calling song/stridulation from a male Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) in riverside brownfield site at 19:30h (23°C).

Habitat of Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana), Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, 3 Sep 2023

Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England  6 September 2023

Calling song/stridulation from a male Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) in insectarium at 23:34h (25.4°C). This male stridulated throughout the night in bouts (49 bouts in 6h) of 30 seconds to 17.5 minutes (total 747 syllables/17.5 mins; ave 1 syllable/1.4 sec) with 4-6 elements per syllable. Each syllable 65-100 milliseconds.

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Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England  6 September 2023

Oscillogram of calling song/stridulation from a male Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) in insectarium at 23:34h (25.4°C). This male stridulated throughout the night in bouts (49 bouts in 6h) of 30 secs to 17.5 mins (total 747 syllables/17.5 mins; ave 1 syllable/1.4 sec) with 4-6 elements per syllable. Each syllable 65-100 msecs.

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) - pair in copula, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, 6 Sep 2023

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) - female with spematophylax, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, 4 Oct 2023

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) - female, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, 15 Oct 2023

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) - female, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, 15 Oct 2023

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) - female still surviving in captivity, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, 30 Dec 2023

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana) - female still surviving in captivity, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, 30 Dec 2023

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana), Purfleet-on-Thames.

Male stridulating from Bramble.

Southern Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera nana), Purfleet-on-Thames.

Male stridulating from Buddleja davidii.

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