Balkan Ornate Bush-cricket

Metaplastes ornatus is a species of bush cricket in the family Tettigoniidae.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Balkan 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

• Poecilimon cretensis
• Poecilimon laevissimus
• Barbitistes ocskayi
• Poecilimon thoracicus
• Poecilimon similis
• Ancistrura nigrovittata

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

Genus

Metaplastes

Species

Metaplastes ornatus

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