Tylopsis lilifolia

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Tylopsis lilifolia
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Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Phaneropterinae
Genus: Tylopsis
Species:
T. lilifolia
Binomial name
Tylopsis lilifolia
(Fabricius, 1793) [1]
Synonyms [ citation needed ]
  • Centrophorus spinosus Fischer von Waldheim, 1846 3
  • Locusta gracilis Germar, 1817
  • Locusta lilifolia Fabricius, 1793
  • Locusta thymifolia Petagna, 1792
  • Phaneroptera margineguttata Serville, 1838
  • Phaneroptera praeusta Fischer von Waldheim, 1846
  • Tylopsis liliifolia (Fabricius, 1793)
  • Tylopsis thymifolia (Petagna, 1792)
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Brown form

Tylopsis lilifolia, the lily bush-cricket, is a species of katydid in the subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is found in Europe and Asia.

Phaneropterinae subfamily of bush crickets

The Phaneropterinae, the bush katydids or leaf katydids, are a subfamily of insects within the family Tettigoniidae. Nearly 2060 species in 85 genera throughout the world are known. They are also known as false katydids or round-headed katydids.

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Distribution and habitat

This species is present in most of Europe, [2] where it is widespread in the Mediterranean region. It can also be found in North Africa and in the Near East, in Iran and in the Caucasus. It mainly inhabits sunny meadows, shrubs and forest clearings. [3] [4] [5]

Europe Continent in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia.

North Africa Northernmost region of Africa

North Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco in the west, to Egypt's Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the east. Others have limited it to top North-Western countries like Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, a region that was known by the French during colonial times as “Afrique du Nord” and is known by all Arabs as the Maghreb. The most commonly accepted definition includes Algeria, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, the 6 countries that shape the top North of the African continent. Meanwhile, “North Africa”, particularly when used in the term North Africa and the Middle East, often refers only to the countries of the Maghreb and Libya. Egypt, being also part of the Middle East, is often considered separately, due to being both North African and Middle Eastern at the same time.

The Near East is a geographical term that roughly encompasses a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey, and Egypt. Despite having varying definitions within different academic circles, the term was originally applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire. The term has fallen into disuse in English and has been replaced by the terms Middle East, of which includes Egypt, and the latter strictly Southwest Asia, including the Transcaucasus.

Description

The adult males grow up to 13–22 millimetres (0.51–0.87 in) long, while females can reach 16–23 millimetres (0.63–0.91 in) of length. [6]

This species has two different forms of color. The basic coloration of the body varies from olive green or pale green to light brown with a brown-yellowish longitudinal band on the back. Head, legs and wings are green. The legs are long and thin, with small spines. The antennae are very long, they reach up to five times the body length. The ovipositor is about 4–5 millimetres (0.16–0.20 in) long [6] and curved upward. In the dry grasslands it is common a brown form of the body.[ citation needed ]

Biology

Adults can be encountered from August through October. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Fabricius, Johan Christian (1793). Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. 2. p. 36.
  2. ↑ Fauna europaea
  3. ↑ "Tylopsis lilifolia (Fabricius, 1793)". Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  4. ↑ IUCN Report
  5. ↑ Tylopsis lilifolia at the Encyclopedia of Life Blue pencil.svg
  6. 1 2 3 Linnea (in Italian)
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