Metaplastes pulchripennis, common name Italian ornate bush-cricket, is a species of 'katydids crickets' belonging to the family Tettigoniidae subfamily Phaneropterinae.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Italian Ornate Bush-cricket being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Barbitistes yersini
- Barbitistes constrictus
- Ancistrura nigrovittata
- Barbitistes fischeri
- Poecilimon similis
- Leptophyes laticauda
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Genus
- Metaplastes
- Species
- Metaplastes pulchripennis
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