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Photo gallery “Orthoptera, stick insects, praying mantises and cicadas”

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1. Orthoptera

Great green bush-cricket, Tettigonia viridissima

Acrometopa syriaca

Southern wart-biter, Decticus albifrons

Anadrymadusa spec.

Mediterranean field cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus

Naxian cave cricket, Dolichopoda naxia

Nosed grashopper, Acrida ungarica

Pyrgomorpha conica

Italian locust, Calliptamus italicus

Calliptamus barbarus

Egyptian locust, Anacridum aegyptium

Aiolopus thalassinus ?

Blue-winged grasshopper, Oedipoda caerulescens

Acrotylus insubricus

Omocestus spec.

Chorthippus mollis

2. Stick insects (Phasmotodea)

Bacillus atticus

3. Praying mantisses (Mantodea)

Rivetina balcanica

Mediterranean mantis, Iris oratoria

European Mantis, Mantis religiosa

Empusa fasciata

Ameles heldreichi, male

Ameles heldreichi, female

4. Cicadas (Auchenorrhyncha)

Common cicada, Cicada orni

Cicadetta montana

Spittlebug, Philaenus spec.

Agalmatium spec.

Cixiidae, Pentastira rorida ?

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The Fauna of Naxos

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