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Wart-biter
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The wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus)[1] 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.[2]
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Wart-biter | |
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Adult female of the green morph | |
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male | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Ensifera |
Family: | Tettigoniidae |
Subfamily: | Tettigoniinae |
Tribe: | Decticini |
Genus: | Decticus |
Species: | D. verrucivorus |
Binomial name | |
Decticus verrucivorus | |
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