Tettigonia

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Tettigonia
Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia sp.-1.-1.JPG
Young female Tettigonia viridissima
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Tribe: Tettigoniini
Genus: Tettigonia
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Eumenymus Pictet, 1888
  • Locusta Fabricius, 1775
  • Phasgonura Stephens, 1835

Tettigonia is the type genus of bush crickets belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae.[1] The scientific name Tettigonia is onomatopoeic and derives from the Greek τεττιξ, meaning cicada.

Species of this genus are typically quite large insects, with relatively massive bodies, green or brownish colour and long hindlegs. For example, great green bush-crickets, the type species described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, are the largest Orthopterans in the British Isles.[2]

Most Tettigonia species are present in Europe, North Africa and the Asian mainland, apart from which occurs in Japan.[3]

Species[]

The Orthoptera Species File[3] lists:

  • Tarbinsky, 1940 (synonyms T. acutipennis Ebner, 1946; T. turcica Ramme, 1951)
  • Chobanov & Lemonnier-Darcemont, 2014
  • Tettigonia cantans (Fuessly, 1775)
  • Tettigonia caudata (Charpentier, 1842)
  • Willemse, 1933
  • Sultana, Panhwar & Wagan, 2015
  • Mori, 1933
  • Bolívar, 1893
  • Furukawa, 1938
  • Storozhenko, Kim & Jeon, 2015
  • Massa, 1998
  • Chopard, 1937
  • Ingrisch, 1983
  • (Bolívar, 1914)
  • (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
  • (Bolívar, 1914)
  • Uvarov, 1924
  • (Lucas, 1849)
  • Capra, 1936
  • Ogawa, 2003
  • Uvarov, 1939
  • Ebner, 1946
  • (Pictet, 1888)
  • Tettigonia viridissima (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Gryllus viridissimus L.)
  • Furukawa, 1938

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References[]

  1. ^ Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per Regna tria naturae (10th ed.) 1: 429.
  2. ^ Ragge, D. R. (1965). Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles. Frederick Warne & Co. p. 299.
  3. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: genus Tettigonia Linnaeus, 1758 (Version 5.0/5.0 retrieved 29 May 2020)
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