This cricket is a small, dark brown, ground-dwelling, grasshopper-like insect with long, thread-like antennae.

Its range includes Western, Central and Southern Europe, Corsica, Algeria and Morocco.

[3][4] The natural habitat of this species is forest edges and woodland clearings, where it is associated with oak, beech, hazel and holly trees and with bracken.

It is uncommon in Britain, with separate populations in the New Forest, the Isle of Wight and southern Devon.

When disturbed, these crickets leap away with their powerful back limbs, or hide in the leaf litter or among low vegetation.