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Barbitistes serricauda, also known as the common saw bush cricket, is a species belonging to the family Tettigoniidae subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is found in most of Europe. The imagines can be found from July to September on sunny forest edges and shrubs. They are mostly nocturnal.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Common Saw 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 constrictus
- Barbitistes obtusus
- Barbitistes vicetinus
- Barbitistes fischeri
- Barbitistes yersini
- Leptophyes laticauda
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Genus
- Barbitistes
- Species
- Barbitistes serricauda
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