Scintharista notabilis (Walker, 1870)

Habitat:
Scintharista notabilis occurs in rocky or stony, sparsely vegetated areas such as rocky slopes or ravines (barrancos) etc.

Life cycle:
The adults can be observed all year round. Eggs are laid in the ground.

Endangerment factors:
Scintharista notabilis is locally threatened by habitat loss, so in Andalusia.

Remarks:
The very efficient fliers are betrayed by their red hind wings and their loud buzzing flight, that sounds harder and faster than that of Psophus stridulus.

Scintharista notabilis ranges from Kenya northward across north Africa and eastward to south Asia. In Europe it is only locally present in Southern Spain (Andalusia). It also settled the western Canary Islands (apparently missing in Fuerteventura and Lanzarote), where I watched it at Christmas 2008 and 2011 in Valle Hermoso in La Gomera.