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  subfamily Tettigoniinae Krauss, 1902
tribe Tettigoniini Krauss, 1902
genus Tettigonia Linnaeus, 1758

species Tettigonia viridissima (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Common name(s):  Great Green Bush-cricket; La Grande Sauterelle verte; Großes Grünes Heupferd
• Images: (14) See all images

  specimen

• Sound recordings:
  • male from Poznan, Poland
• Links:
  • Specimens in German collections (DORSA)
• Distribution:
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• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (81):
  • Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna tria naturae (10th ed.) 1:430 >> Gryllus (Tettigonia) viridissimus  
  • Linnaeus. 1761. Fauna Sueciae sistens animalia Sueciae (Ed. 2):237 >> Gryllus viridissimus  
  • Linnaeus. 1767. Systema Naturae per Regna tria naturae (12th ed.) 1, pt. 2:698 >> Gryllus (Tettigonia) viridissimus  
  • Thunberg. 1815. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Peterburg 5:278 >> Conocephalus viridissimus  
  • Lamarck. 1835. Hist. nat. Anim. sans Vert. 4(2nd Ed.):440 >> Locusta viridissima  
  • Stephens. 1835. Illustrations of British Entomology: or, A synopsis of indigenous insects: Containing their generic and specific distinctions; with an account of the metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food, and economy, as far as practicable...embellished with coloured figures of the rarer and more interesting species Mandibulata (6):16
  • Wesmaël. 1838. Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 5:593 >> Locusta (Locusta) viridissima
  • Frauenfeld. 1861. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 11:100 >> Locusta viridissima
  • Frivaldsky. 1867. Magyarországi Egyenesröpüek magánrajza. (Monographia Orthopterorum Hungariae) 114 >> Locusta viridissima  
  • Bolívar, I. 1876-1878. Sinopsis de los Ortópteros de España y Portugal 263  
  • Dubrony. 1878. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova 12:21 >> Locusta viridissima  
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1882. Prodromus der europäischen Orthopteren 307  
  • Targioni-Tozzetti. 1882. Ortotteri agrari cioè dei diversi insetti dell'ordine degli ortotteri nocivi o vantaggiosi all'agricoltura o all'economia domestica e principalmente delle cavallette 57 >> Locusta viridissima  
  • Finot. 1883. Les Orthoptères de la France 103  
  • Krauss. 1890. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 40:247 >> Tettigonia viridissima  
  • Targioni-Tozzetti. 1891. Animali ed insetti del tobacco in erba e del tabacco secco 175 >> Locusta viridissima  
  • Moragues y de Manzanos. 1894. An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. 23:73-87  
  • Lydekker. 1896. The Royal Natural History 6:179 >> Locusta viridissima  
  • Bolívar, I. 1899. Ann. Soc. Entom. Belgique 43:600 >> Locusta viridissima  
  • Aurivillius. 1900[1897]. Ent. Tidskr. 21:252
  • Tumpel. 1900. Die Geradflügler Mitteleuropas 225, 263
  • Werner. 1902. Berlin Ent. Z. 47:118 >> Tettigonia viridissima  
  • Jacobson & V.L. Bianchi. 1905[1902-1905]. Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries 392
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:217 >> Phasgonura viridissima  
  • Otte, H. 1906. Zoolog. Anzeiger Zb. 3 30:529-535 >> Note: chromosomes
  • Otte, H. 1907. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Anat. Ontog. Tiere 24:431-520 >> Note: male reproductive physiology
  • Karny. 1907. Berlin Ent. Z. 52:26 >> Tettigonia viridissima  
  • Ebner. 1908. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 58:332 >> Tettigonia viridissima  
  • Navás. 1909. Bol. Soc. Arag. Cienc. Nat. 8:201 >> Phasgonura viridissima  
  • Mohr. 1916. Arch. Biol. 29:579-752 >> Note: chromosomes
  • Chopard. 1922. Faune de France 3:51, 76 >> Phasgonura viridissima  
  • Hebard. 1925. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 51:50 >> Tettigonia viridissima  
  • Bei-Bienko. 1929. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 10 4:545 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Uvarov. 1933. Ark. Zool. A26(1):4
  • Wu, C.F. 1935. Catalogus Insectorum Sinensium (Catalogue of Chinese Insects) 93
  • Asana, Makino & Niyama. 1938. J. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ. (Zool.) 6:221-234 >> Note: chromosomes >> Locusta viridissima
  • Uvarov. 1938. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. (Zool. Ser.) 20(33):444 >> Tettigonia viridissima  
  • Ramme. 1951. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 27:350
  • Moll. 1953. Rev. Acad. Ciencias Zaragoza 8:141-145 >> Note: chromosomes
  • Harz. 1969. Ser. Entomol. 5:1-749  
  • Gangwere & Morales-Agacino. 1970. Miscelánia Zoológica 2(5):1-67
  • Nielsen. 1972. Entomologica Scandinavica 3:156-158 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Gangwere & Morales-Agacino. 1973. Anales INIA, Ser. Prot. Veg., Madrid 3:251-337
  • Ingrisch. 1977. Zeit. angew. Zool. 64(4):468 >> Note: Diagnostic characters Larva  
  • Herrera. 1982. Ser. Entomol. 22:1-162
  • Marshall, J.A. 1983. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 78(4):394 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa. 1984. Folia biologica (Krakow) 32:311-325 >> Note: chromosomes
  • Bellmann. 1985. Heuschrecken: beobachten, bestimmen 92 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Pinedo. 1985. Eos 61:258 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Baccetti. 1987. In Baccetti [Ed.]. Evolutionary Biology of Orthopteroid Insects (Ellis Horwood series in entomology and acarology) 12-112 >> Note: Sperm
  • Heller, K.-G. 1988. Ökol. Forsch. Anwend 1:84 >> Note: Song
  • Kruseman. 1988. Vers. Tech. Geg. Inst. Taxon. Zoo. Amsterdam 51:i-xix, 1-164
  • Ehrmann, R. 1988. Articulata 3(4):147-150
  • Lee, S.M. 1990. Insecta Koreana Series 7:105
  • Arak, Eiriksson & Radesater. 1990. Behav. Ecology & Sociobiology 26:1-7 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Gangwere & Llorente del Moral. 1992. Eos 68(1):75
  • Arak & Eiriksson. 1992. Behav. Ecology & Sociobiology 30:365-372 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Jin, Xingbao & Hsia. 1994. Jour. Orth. Res. 3:15-41
  • Storozhenko. 1994. Far Eastern Entomologist 3:6 >> Tettigonia viridissima  
  • Naskrecki & Ünal. 1995. Beiträge zur Entomologie 45(2):393- >> Note: Known distribution: Whole of Palaearctic region
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa & Maryanska-Nadachowska. 1995. Folia biologica (Krakow) 43:29-34 >> Note: chromosomes >> Phasgonura viridissima
  • La Greca, Di Marco, Laurenzi & Osella. 1997. In Osella, Biondi, Di Marco & Riti [Ed.]. Ricerche sulla Valle Peligna (Italia Centrale, Abruzzo) [Researches in the Peligna Valley (Central Italy, Abruzzo)] 1:163
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa. 1998. Folia biologica (Krakow) 46:167
  • Detzel [Ed.]. 1998. Die Heuschrecken Baden-Württembergs 245 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Ünal. 1999. Jour. Orth. Res. 8:245
  • Defaut. 1999. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocenotiques 2:11 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Szövényi & B. Nagy. 1999. Savaria 25(2):106 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Defaut. 2000. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocenotiques 5:38 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Nagy, A. & B. Nagy. 2000. Dunantuli Dolg. Term. Tud. Sorozat 10:154 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Katbeh Bader & Massa. 2001. Jour. Orth. Res. 10(1):27
  • Defaut [Ed.]. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France 13 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Braud, Sardet & Morin. 2002. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocenotiques 7:7 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Fontana, Buzzetti, Cogo & Odé. 2002. Guida al riconoscimento e allo studio di cavallette, grilli, mantidi e insetti affini del Veneto: Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Dermaptera, Embidiina 318 >> Note: (Charpentier 1854) >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Pfau, H.K. & B. Pfau. 2002. Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Gesellsch. 75:265 >> Note: song >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Voisin [Ed.]. 2003. Patrimoines Naturels 60:19 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Storozhenko. 2004. Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia [in Russian] 89 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Mahasneh & Katbeh-Bader. 2004. Denisia 14:254 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Nagy, B. 2005. Entomofauna Carpathica 17:18 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Ünal. 2006. Priamus 3:9 >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Schirmel. 2009[2008]. Articulata 23(2):69-72 >> Note: identification of nymphs >> Tettigonia viridissima
  • Sahnoun, Doumandji & Desutter-Grandcolas. 2010. Zootaxa 2432:33 >> Tettigonia viridissima
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Europe
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Location of type:  LSUK London Linnean Society

• synonym cantatrix De Geer, 1773
• synonym flava Nedelkov, 1907
• synonym intermedia Jannone, 1937
• synonym meridionalis Shugurov, 1912
• synonym paoli Capra, 1936
• synonym trinacriae Jannone, 1937

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