Metrioptera brachyptera (Linnaeus, 1761), (bog bush-cricket)

17 Aug 1975 at OSGR: SU94 in Surrey, England

Taxonomic hierarchy:
Species: Metrioptera brachyptera (Bog Bush-cricket)
Family: TETTIGONIIDAE (bush crickets)
Superfamily: TETTIGONIOIDEA (a superfamily of orthopterans)
Order: ORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers and crickets)
Division (Zoo.): Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
Infraclass: Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass: PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class: INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum: HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum: ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum: ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade: Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom: EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom: ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain: Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life: BIOTA (living things)

Metrioptera brachyptera is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Record Summary	Female imago
Found as	Female imago
Date	17 August 1975
OS grid ref	OSGR: SU94
Lat/Lon	51° 10’ N, 0° 40’ W
Vice County	Surrey, VC no: 17
Country	England

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Metrioptera brachyptera (Linnaeus, 1761), (bog bush-cricket)

17 Aug 1975 at OSGR: SU94 in Surrey, England

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Metrioptera brachyptera is also a member of:

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