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title: "Wart-biter"
description: "Decticus verrucivorus — Insectos y arañas. The wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) is a bush-cricket in the family Tettigoniidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/wart-biter
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Wart-biter

> Decticus verrucivorus — Insectos y arañas. The wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus)  is a bush-cricket in the family Tettigoniidae.

- Scientific name: *Decticus verrucivorus*
- Category: `insects` (Insectos y arañas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 16877
- Wikidata: [Q958048](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q958048)
- iNaturalist taxon: [147950](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/147950)

## Names

- en: Wart-biter
- de: Warzenbeißer
- fr: Dectique verrucivore
- nl: Wrattenbijter
- pl: Łatczyn brodawnik

## Countries with the most observations

RU (3661), FR (2596), AT (1237), IT (1108), DE (1068), PL (835), CH (545), DK (504), CZ (471), UA (377), RO (322), LT (306)

## Summary

The wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus)  is a bush-cricket in the family Tettigoniidae. Its common and scientific names derive from the eighteenth-century Swedish practice of allowing the crickets to nibble at warts to remove them.

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

## Photo

![Wart-biter](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/wart-biter/medium.jpg)

Photo: Hubert Sztyler · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/332198593

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/wart-biter?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).