Barbitistes fischeri

Description

Barbitistes fischeri is a species of alasiwsiw. It was first described by Yersin in 1854. Barbitistes fischeri belongs to the genus Barbitistes, and family Tettigoniidae. Barbitistes is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae. In the genus Barbitistes the anterior dorsal surface of the vertex (fastigium) is usually conical and blunt. The length of the antenna is approximately 1.5 - 3 fold to body length. The males have long and often tortuous appendages on the rear-most segments ("cerci"). The Barbitistes species are often brightly colored. Species of this genus are present in much of Europe (but not the British Isles or Scandinavia) and in Asia Minor.