''Tettigonia'' is the type genus of bush crickets belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae.Linnaeus, C. (1758). ''Systema Naturae per Regna tria naturae'' (10th ed.) 1: 429. The scientific name ''Tettigonia'' is onomatopoeic and derives from the Greek τεττιξ, meaning

cicada The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into tw ...

. 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 In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

described by

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his Nobility#Ennoblement, ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalise ...

in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', are the largest Orthopterans in the

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. Most ''Tettigonia'' species are present in Europe,

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and the Asian mainland, apart from '' Tettigonia orientalis'' which occurs in Japan.

Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Tettigonia'' Linnaeus, 1758 (Version 5.0/5.0 retrieved 29 May 2020)
/ref> 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 ''Tettigonia viridissima'', the great green bush-cricket, is a large species of bush-cricket belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae. Distribution and habitat This species can be encountered in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, i ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as ''

Gryllus ''Gryllus'' is a genus of field cricket (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Gryllinae). Members of the genus are typically 15–31 mm long and darkly coloured. The type species is ''Gryllus campestris'' L.: the European field cricket. Until the mid- ...

viridissimus'' L.) * '' Tettigonia yama'' Furukawa, 1938

Gallery

File:Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia sp.-2.-2.JPG, Nymph File:Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia sp...JPG, Nymph File:Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia cantans-1.jpg, Female '' Tettigonia cantans'' File:Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia cantans-3.jpg, Male ''Tettigonia cantans'' File:Tettigonia cantans m 10191.jpg, ''Tettigonia cantans'' File:Tettigonia cantans bl.JPG, ''Tettigonia cantans'' File:Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia viridissima.JPG, Male ''

'' File:Heupferd fg01.jpg, Female ''Tettigonia viridissima''

References

{{Taxonbar , from=Q1349733 Tettigoniinae Tettigoniidae genera