Meconema thalassinum

Behaviour: 

Although the males have no stridulatory organ, they produce a very characteristic song: they drum with a hind leg on the substrate (e.g. a leaf), producing a purring sound audible from about 1m. Usually there are several such bursts of drumming in a series of short bursts followed by one to three longer ones, e.g., 'tr-tr--tr-trrr-trrr'. [1]

References

  1. Bellman H. A Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Britain and Northern Europe. William Collins & Sons; 1988.
Taxonomic name: 
Meconema thalassinum (Classification)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith