Tettigonia caudata

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Tettigonia caudata
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Tettigonia caudata laying eggs in the ground
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Genus: Tettigonia
Species:
T. caudata
Binomial name
Tettigonia caudata
(Charpentier, 1842) [1]

Tettigonia caudata is a species of bush-crickets [2] belonging to the family Tettigoniidae subfamily Tettigoniinae. It is found over most of Europe mainly in the East (it is absent from France and Spain). [3] The males of this species prefer to inhabit tall and dense vegetation. This mesohabitat can be compared to that of T. viridissima, with which it competes. [2]

Close-Up of a Tettigonia caudata

References

  1. Charpentier (1845), Orthoptera descripta et depicta [1841-1845], L. Woss, Lipsiae [Leipzig] 120 pp. (non numerate), 60 taf.
  2. 1 2 Schirmel, Jens; Fartmann, Thomas (2013-01-01). "Coexistence of two related bush-cricket species (Orthoptera: Tettigonia caudata, T. viridissima) in an agricultural landscape". Biologia. 68 (3). doi: 10.2478/s11756-013-0177-3 . ISSN   1336-9563.
  3. Fauna Europaea

Reference information

Reference number one was provided by the journal Biologia which publishes research papers covering botany, zoology, and cellular biology.