Saga hellenica

Saga hellenica
In central Greece
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Genus:	Saga
Species:	S. hellenica
Binomial name
Saga hellenica Kaltenbach, 1967

Saga hellenica is a large species of bush cricket or katydid in the family Tettigoniidae. It is endemic to the Balkans, living in Albania, North Macedonia, Greece (without Eastern Macedonia and Thrace) and in the past also in western Bulgaria^[1] such as scrub and shrub spiny bushes.

It feeds on other large insects such as other species of Orthoptera including crickets and grasshoppers. It is also known to hybridize with another species of the genus Saga, the Saga pedo. Although it is locally common in most of its geographical range, it is threatened by agricultural activities and seasonal fires created by farmers and arsonists.

References[]

• "Hybridization between Saga sp.", GEEM
• Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Insects of Britain and Northern Europe, Michael Chinery, ISBN 978-0002199186