Tettigonia

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

Tettigonia
T. viridissima , young female
Scientific classification
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

Specie are typically quite large insects, with relatively massive bodies, green or brownish colour and long hind legs. For example, great green bush-crickets, the type species described by Linnaeus in 1758, are the largest Orthopterans in the British Isles.[2]

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

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[3] lists:

  • Tettigonia armeniaca Tarbinsky, 1940 (synonyms T. acutipennis Ebner, 1946; T. turcica Ramme, 1951)
  • Tettigonia balcanica Chobanov & Lemonnier-Darcemont, 2014
  • Tettigonia cantans (Fuessly, 1775)
  • Tettigonia caudata (Charpentier, 1842)
  • Tettigonia chinensis Willemse, 1933
  • Tettigonia chitralensis Sultana, Panhwar & Wagan, 2015
  • Tettigonia dolichoptera Mori, 1933
  • Tettigonia hispanica Bolívar, 1893
  • Tettigonia ibuki Furukawa, 1938
  • Tettigonia jungi Storozhenko, Kim & Jeon, 2015
  • Tettigonia krugeri Massa, 1998
  • Tettigonia longealata Chopard, 1937
  • Tettigonia longispina Ingrisch, 1983
  • Tettigonia lozanoi (Bolívar, 1914)
  • Tettigonia macrocephalus (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
  • Tettigonia macroxipha (Bolívar, 1914)
  • Tettigonia orientalis Uvarov, 1924
  • Tettigonia savignyi (Lucas, 1849)
  • Tettigonia silana Capra, 1936
  • Tettigonia tsushimensis Ogawa, 2003
  • Tettigonia ussuriana Uvarov, 1939
  • Tettigonia uvarovi Ebner, 1946
  • Tettigonia vaucheriana (Pictet, 1888)
  • Tettigonia viridissima (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Gryllus viridissimus L.)
  • Tettigonia yama Furukawa, 1938

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