''Acrometopa macropoda'' is a species belonging to the family

Tettigoniidae Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshoppers". More than 8,000 species are known. Part of the suborder Ensifera, t ...

subfamily

Phaneropterinae The Phaneropterinae, the sickle-bearing bush crickets or leaf katydids, are a subfamily of insects within the family Tettigoniidae. Nearly 2,060 species in 85 genera throughout the world are known. They are also known as false katydids or round-h ...

. It is found in southern Europe approximately from Trieste on both sides of the

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coast - Italy and Yugoslavia and to the south Greece and the

Dinaric Mountains The Dinaric Alps (), also Dinarides, are a mountain range in Southern and Southcentral Europe, separating the continental Balkan Peninsula from the Adriatic Sea. They stretch from Italy in the northwest through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and He ...

. It prefers dry grasslands and wastelands with loose bushes or higher-growing plants, such as thistles .

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Taxonomy- may be a

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

of ''

Acrometopa servillea ''Acrometopa'' is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae;Fieber FX (1853) ''Lotos'' 3: 172. It is typical of the tribe Acrometopini. Species in this genus are found in south-eastern Europe and the Middle East. Species The ' ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2754729 Orthoptera of Europe Phaneropterinae Insects described in 1838