Language: Bilingual in English and German
The first of three volumes describing the Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, and allies) of Europe, volume 1 covers the suborder Ensifera which includes the various types of crickets and their allies including true crickets, camel crickets, bush crickets or katydids, grigs, weta, and Cooloola monsters. Descriptions and identification keys are bilingual in English and German and the book has 135 plates densely illustrated with line drawings of various characteristic morphological features such as appendages and parts of the exoskeleton.