TETTIGONIIDAE
(bush crickets)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Metrioptera brachyptera
Bog Bush-cricket
Female (Click to open)
 		Species 12 images
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Dark Bush-cricket
Male (Click to open)
 		Species 33 images
Platycleis albopunctata
Grey Bush-cricket
Female (Click to open)
 		Species 13 images
Roeseliana roeselii
Roesel’s Bush-cricket
Female (Click to open)Male (Click to open)
 		Species 21 images
Ruspolia nitidula
Large Cone-head
Species 1 ident. refs
Tettigonia viridissima
Great Green Bush-cricket
Female (Click to open)
 		Species 29 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Holst, K.Th. 1986 The Saltatoria (Bush-Crickets, Crickets and Grass-Hoppers) of Northern Europe Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 16, 127pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.

TETTIGONIIDAE (bush crickets) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for TETTIGONIIDAE (bush crickets)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for TETTIGONIIDAE (bush crickets)
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