''Tettigonia caudata'' is a species of bush-crickets
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
Tettigoniinae
The Tettigoniinae are a subfamily of bush crickets or katydids, which contains hundreds of species in about twelve tribes.
Distribution
The greatest diversity is in the Palaearctic region and many of the familiar European species of bush crick ...
. It is found over most of Europe mainly in the East (it is absent from France and Spain).
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The males of this species prefer to inhabit tall and dense vegetation. This mesohabitat can be compared to that of the
T. viridissima which it
competes with.
References
Reference information
Reference number one was provided by the journal ''Biologia'' which publishes research papers covering botany, zoology, and cellular biology.
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Orthoptera of Europe
Tettigoniinae
Insects described in 1842