Adult 14 to 17 mm in length. A pale green bush-cricket with a creamy-yellow dorsal stripe and two reddish spots on top of the pro-thorax. The female has a long, slightly upturned ovipositor, while the male has long curved cerci. Both sexes have vestigial wings and are flightless. It is only readily separated from the Oak Bush-cricket as an adult, because the wings remain as tiny flaps. Even at this stage it could be overlooked as a large nymph of our commoner species.

An arboreal species found in oak woodland but also on other deciduous trees and on hedgerow shrubs.

Summer.

Carnivorous, arboreal and nocturnal, it is a predator of the Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner.

A recent British colonist, first recorded from Surrey and Berkshire in 2001, and already recorded as far north as Nottinghamshire by 2012. This follows a well-documented expansion from southern Europe over the past few decades.

Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland.