Tettigonia is the type genus of bush crickets belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae.[1] The scientific name Tettigonia is onomatopoeic and derives from the Greek τεττιξ, meaning cicada.
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 described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, are the largest Orthopterans in the British Isles.[2]
Most Tettigonia species are present in Europe, North Africa and the Asian mainland, apart from Tettigonia orientalis which occurs in Japan.[3]
^Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per Regna tria naturae (10th ed.) 1: 429.
^Ragge, D. R. (1965). Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles. Frederick Warne & Co. p. 299.
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