Tettigonia viridissima (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Great Green Bush-cricket)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesTettigonia viridissima (Great Green Bush-cricket)
FamilyTETTIGONIIDAE (bush crickets)
SuperfamilyTETTIGONIOIDEA (a superfamily of orthopterans)
OrderORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers and crickets)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Tettigonia viridissima (Great Green Bush-cricket) :
1: Tettigonia viridissima (Great Green Bush-cricket)
9 Aug 2014 OSGR: SY67 50° 30’ N, 2° 30’ W Vice County: Dorset (VC 9) England
Male, after dark
Image 1: Male - dorsal viewImage 2: Male - dorsal view (2)Image 3: Male - dorso-lateral viewImage 4: Male - dorso-lateral view - natural backgroundImage 5: Male - dorso-lateral view - natural background (2)Image 6: Male - lateral viewImage 7: Male - lateral view (2)Image 8: Male - lateral view (3)Image 9: Male - lateral view - natural backgroundImage 10: Male - lateral view - natural background (2)Image 11: Male - latero-dorsal viewImage 12: Male - latero-dorsal view - natural backgroundImage 13: Male - postero-dorsal viewImage 14: Male - rear three-quarter view, with ?female nearby
2: Tettigonia viridissima (Great Green Bush-cricket)
27 Jul 2014 OSGR: SY67 50° 30’ N, 2° 30’ W Vice County: Dorset (VC 9) England
Males and females, singing, at dusk
Image 1: Female - lateral viewImage 2: Male - dorsal view (another in the background)Image 3: Male - dorsal viewImage 4: Male - front three-quarter view (another in the background)Image 5: Male - latero-dorsal viewImage 6: Male - latersal viewImage 7: Male - latersal view (2)Image 8: Male - latersal view (3)Image 9: Male - latersal view (4)Image 10: Male - rear three-quarter view
3: Tettigonia viridissima (Great Green Bush-cricket)
30 Jul 1971 OSGR: SX84 50° 20’ N, 3° 40’ W Vice County: South Devon (VC 3) England
Image 1: Female - head and thorax - close-upImage 2: Female - head and thorax - side viewImage 3: Male - dorsal viewImage 4: Male - undersideImage 5: Male - underside view

Tettigonia viridissima (Great Green Bush-cricket) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Tettigonia viridissima (Great Green Bush-cricket)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Tettigonia viridissima (Great Green Bush-cricket)
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