Grey bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata)

Platycleis albopunctata
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Tettigoniinae
Tribe:	Platycleidini
Genus:	Platycleis
Scientific name
Platycleis albopunctata (Goeze, 1778)
Geography
Native countries:
France Slovakia
Sound
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The Grey bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata) is a species of cricket or katydid in the subfamily Tettigoniinae (shield-backed katydids).

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Taxonomy

For full nomenclature and taxonomic details of this taxon, see Orthoptera Species File

Subspecies

• Platycleis albopunctata albopunctata (Goeze, 1778)
• Platycleis albopunctata jerseyana Zeuner, 1940
• Platycleis albopunctata collina Navás, 1924
• Platycleis albopunctata cretica Willemse & Kruseman, 1976
• Platycleis albopunctata hispanica Zeuner, 1941
• Platycleis albopunctata maura Zeuner, 1941
• Platycleis albopunctata monticola (Chopard, 1924)
• Platycleis albopunctata sculpta Zeuner, 1941
• Platycleis albopunctata turanica Zeuner, 1930

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Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species.

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Gilles San Martin — 24 specimens collected
• Claude Kolwelter — 16 specimens collected
• Raoul Gerend — 16 specimens collected

• Roland Achtziger — 9 specimens collected
• Fabian A. Boetzl — 8 specimens collected
• Tim Adriaens — 8 specimens collected
• Paul Jean-Charles Braun — 6 specimens collected
• HADDAD Karim — 6 specimens collected
• Tommy Andriollo — 6 specimens collected
• Holger Braun — 5 specimens collected
• Jakob Fahr — 5 specimens collected
• Valentin Moser — 4 specimens collected
• Andre Hospers — 4 specimens collected
• Marco Schmidt — 3 specimens collected
• Louis AUREGLIA — 3 specimens collected
• Sven Gippner — 3 specimens collected
• Victor Parkhomenko — 2 specimens collected
• Ivan Paz-Vinas — 1 specimen collected
• Diogo Borges Provete — 1 specimen collected
• Andrzej Oleksa — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Gilles San Martin — 26 specimens identified
• Raoul Gerend — 16 specimens identified
• Holger Braun — 13 specimens identified

• Claude Kolwelter — 13 specimens identified
• Francesco Vitali — 11 specimens identified
• Tim Adriaens — 8 specimens identified
• Fabian A. Boetzl — 6 specimens identified
• Africa Gomez — 6 specimens identified
• Valentin Moser — 6 specimens identified
• Roland Achtziger — 5 specimens identified
• Jakob Fahr — 5 specimens identified
• HADDAD Karim — 4 specimens identified
• Andre Hospers — 4 specimens identified
• Lars Ove Hansen — 3 specimens identified
• Tommy Andriollo — 3 specimens identified
• Oto Kaláb — 2 specimens identified
• Slobodan Ivkovic — 1 specimen identified
• Marco Schmidt — 1 specimen identified
• Diogo Borges Provete — 1 specimen identified
• Andrzej Oleksa — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

Belgian Species ListBioLibBOLD SystemsCatalogue of LifeCzech NDOPDyntaxaeBiodiversityEncyclopedia of LifeEPPOEUNISFauna EuropaeaFauna Europaea NewFinnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species ListGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistInsects (Insecta) of the WorldIRMNGJ9U entityNaturbasenNBIC scientific nameNBN System KeyNCBI taxonomyNederlands SoortenregisterObservation.orgOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)TAXREFUMLS CUIWoRMS-ID for taxaXeno-canto