Skejo, Josip;Rebrina, Fran;Szövényi, Gergely;Puskás, Gellért;Tvrtković, Nikola
Species
VulnerablePredatory Bush-cricket
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderOrthoptera
- FamilyTettigoniidae
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Collections
- NRM, MSU, MZLU
- Recorded in
- Turkey, United States, Croatia, Austria, France
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- taxon name
- Saga pedo
- Commons category
- Saga pedo
- Commons gallery
- Saga pedo
- taxon common name
- kobylka sága
- short name
- S. pedo
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Encyclopedic overview
Saga pedo is a species of wingless bush cricket from the southern half of Europe and western and central Asia. This brown or green bush cricket typically has a total length, from the head to the tip of the ovipositor, of up to 10.5 cm (4.1 in), but exceptionally it may reach 12 cm (4.7 in), which makes it one of the largest European insects and one of the world's largest Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets and alike). The head-and-body alone typically is 5–7 cm (2.0–2.8 in) long in adults, but may reach up to 7.8 cm (3.1 in).
Colloquially known as the predatory bush cricket, or the spiked magician (due to the "enchanting" manner in which it waves its forelimbs as it approaches its prey), it is unusual due to its strictly carnivorous lifestyle and its parthenogenetic reproduction (only females exist and they breed by themselves).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saga pedo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.