Grasshopper in Lot Department, France (1 Viewer)

[kolibri2]

Saw this grasshopper 05-07-2015 in Lot Department, France. Can anyone help with the ID please?

 

[Steve Babbs]

My best guess would be Calliptamus italicus but it's hard to tell with the angle and you have resized the photo is a very small size.

It may well have been mentioned here before but there is a great new book out

Grasshoppers of Britain and Western Europe: A Photographic Guide (Bloomsbury Naturalist): Amazon.co.uk: Éric Sardet, Christian Roesti, Yoan Braud: 9781472954862: Books

Buy Grasshoppers of Britain and Western Europe: A Photographic Guide (Bloomsbury Naturalist) Illustrated, with CD by Éric Sardet, Christian Roesti, Yoan Braud (ISBN: 9781472954862) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

Although if you are French speaking, this book is also good

Le guide des sauterelles, grillons et criquets d'Europe occidentale : Bellmann, Heiko, Luquet, Gérard: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Buy Le guide des sauterelles, grillons et criquets d'Europe occidentale by (9782603015643) from Amazon UK’s Books Shop. Free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

 

[Val35]

Calliptamus sp. for me, if you can't see the shape of the pallium in males, these are best left to genus level.

 

[pdwinter]

Calliptamus sp. for me, if you can't see the shape of the pallium in males, these are best left to genus level.

Agree with Val35.

 

[Val35]

My best guess would be Calliptamus italicus but it's hard to tell with the angle and you have resized the photo is a very small size.

It may well have been mentioned here before but there is a great new book out

Grasshoppers of Britain and Western Europe: A Photographic Guide (Bloomsbury Naturalist): Amazon.co.uk: Éric Sardet, Christian Roesti, Yoan Braud: 9781472954862: Books

Buy Grasshoppers of Britain and Western Europe: A Photographic Guide (Bloomsbury Naturalist) Illustrated, with CD by Éric Sardet, Christian Roesti, Yoan Braud (ISBN: 9781472954862) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

Although if you are French speaking, this book is also good

Le guide des sauterelles, grillons et criquets d'Europe occidentale : Bellmann, Heiko, Luquet, Gérard: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Buy Le guide des sauterelles, grillons et criquets d'Europe occidentale by (9782603015643) from Amazon UK’s Books Shop. Free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

The first book you mention also exists in French, it's the one I've been using since 2017 and it's indeed a very good book and the French edition contains CD's with the songs of each species.

 

[Steve Babbs]

The first book you mention also exists in French, it's the one I've been using since 2017 and it's indeed a very good book and the French edition contains CD's with the songs of each species.

The English edition also has the CD. The second book also has a CD, although I appear to have lost it. It matter less to me than it did as I'm getting to the age where I'm struggling to hear a lot of crickets.

 

[pdwinter]

The English edition also has the CD. The second book also has a CD, although I appear to have lost it. It matter less to me than it did as I'm getting to the age where I'm struggling to hear a lot of crickets.

I find using a bat detector (I use a Magenta 5) together with a recording device (I just use my mobile) and then a little work gets me the sonagrams which I then use against the sonagrams in the book(s).
I can hear some crickets (Wood and Southern Field for example) and the gorse-like clicking of Large Marsh Grasshopper but after that I hear nothing!

 

[Steve Babbs]

I find using a bat detector (I use a Magenta 5) together with a recording device (I just use my mobile) and then a little work gets me the sonagrams which I then use against the sonagrams in the book(s).
I can hear some crickets (Wood and Southern Field for example) and the gorse-like clicking of Large Marsh Grasshopper but after that I hear nothing!

Sadly I left the batteries in my bat detector for too long! It didn't recover.