Saga hellenica

Saga hellenica
In central Greece
Scientific classification
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Animalia
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Arthropoda
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Insecta
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Orthoptera
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Ensifera
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Tettigoniidae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Saga
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Binomial name
Saga hellenica Kaltenbach, 1967

Saga hellenica is a large species of bush cricket or katydid in the family Tettigoniidae. It is endemic to the Balkans, living in Albania, North Macedonia, Greece (without Eastern Macedonia and Thrace) and in the past also in western Bulgaria, where it occurred on shrubs and more rarely in the grass in open stony terrains and light xerophytic forests.^[1]

It feeds on other large insects such as other species of Orthoptera including crickets and grasshoppers. Although it is locally common in most of its geographical range, it is threatened by agricultural activities and seasonal fires created by farmers and arsonists.

• Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Insects of Britain and Northern Europe, Michael Chinery, ISBN 978-0002199186

Wikidata ☰ Q7398911 entry

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