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title: "Speckled Bush-cricket"
description: "Leptophyes punctatissima — Insects & spiders. The speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) is a flightless species of bush-cricket belonging to the family Tettigoniidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/speckled-bush-cricket
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Speckled Bush-cricket

> Leptophyes punctatissima — Insects & spiders. The speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) is a flightless species of bush-cricket belonging to the family Tettigoniidae.

- Scientific name: *Leptophyes punctatissima*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 25853
- Wikidata: [Q1757342](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1757342)
- iNaturalist taxon: [131035](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/131035)

## Names

- en: Speckled Bush-cricket
- de: Punktierte Zartschrecke
- es: Saltamontes Verde punteado
- fr: Leptophye ponctuée
- nl: Struiksprinkhaan
- pl: Wątlik charłaj

## Countries with the most observations

GB (6085), DE (5496), FR (4021), DK (2303), NL (1291), BE (889), AT (673), LU (518), ES (436), SE (428), PL (420), CH (410)

## Summary

The speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) is a flightless species of bush-cricket belonging to the family Tettigoniidae. The species was originally described as Locusta punctatissima in 1792.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckled_bush-cricket

## Photo

![Speckled Bush-cricket](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/speckled-bush-cricket/medium.jpg)

Photo: Anne Taylor · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175534190

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/speckled-bush-cricket?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).