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Saga ephippigera Fischer von Waldheim, 1846

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Nomenclature (39)

  • Saga ephippigera Fischer von Waldheim, 1846

    Syntype; 660684db-3455-4860-9dc5-d42da6dc81d3; Karabagh

  • Saga ephippigera Fischer von Waldheim, 1846 in Fieber, 1854: 223.
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  • Saga ephippigera Fischer von Waldheim, 1846 in Khidhir, Jalil & Ali, 2022: 16.
  • Saga ephippigera Fischer von Waldheim, 1846 in Sirin, Taylan, Sevgili, Kaya, Bircan, Akyıldız & Güngör, 2026

Nomenclature references (33)

  • Adelung, N.von (1907) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Orthopterenfauna Transkaukasiens. Trudy Russkogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 38, 32–82. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44902#page/158/mode/1up
  • Binici, B., Sirin, D. & Taylan, M.S. (2021) Molecular genetics and phylogeny of Ephippigera species group of genus Saga Charpentier, 1825 (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Saginae) in Anatolia. Zootaxa, 4991(2), 331–342.
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  • Caudell, A.N. (1916) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae Subfam. Saginae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 167, 1–10, pls 1–2. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105423#page/429/mode/1up
  • de Saussure, H. (1888) Synopsis de la tribu des Sagiens. Orthoptères de la famille des Locustides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 8, 127–160. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34142
  • Fieber, F.X. (1854) Ergänzungsblätter zur Synopse der europäischen Orthopteren. Lotos, Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften. Herausgegeben vom naturhistorischen Vereine Lotos in Prag, 4, 146–149, 177–183, 196–202, 220–225, 271–276. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42808
  • Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1846) Orthoptera Imperii Rossici. Entomographiae Rossicae IV. Nouveaux mémoires de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou, 8, i-iv, 1–443, pls 1–37. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=mZFByvjnxQwC
  • Goldschmidt, E. (1946) Poliploidy and parthenogenesis in the genus Saga. Nature (London), 158, 587–588.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]
  • Jacobson, G.G. & Bianchi, V.L. (1905) In Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries. Devrien Publ., St. Petersburg. i–xii, 1–952, pls 1–25. [1902]
  • Kaltenbach, A.P. (1964) Zur Systematik und Verbreitung der Raubheuschrecken (Tettigoniidae - Saginae), insbesondere der europäischen Arten der Gattung Saga Charpentier. Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen, 16, 68–82. Available at http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ZAOE_16_0068-0082.pdf
  • Kaltenbach, A.P. (1967) Unterlagen für eine Monographie der Saginae I. Superrevision der Gattung Saga Charpentier (Saltatoria: Tettigoniidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie, 17(1-2), 3–107. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/780
  • Kaltenbach, A.P. (1969) Saginae und Decticinae aus Israel I. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 73, 333–338. Available at http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ANNA_73_0333-0338.pdf
  • Kaltenbach, A.P. (1990) The predatory Saginae. In Tettigoniidae: Biology, Systematics and Evolution. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 280–302.
  • Katbeh-Bader, A. & Massa, B. (2001) Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from Jordan with description of new species and redescription of less known species. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 10(1), 25–37. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282001%29010%5B0025%3ATOFJWD%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Khidhir, A.-Q.S., Jalil, P. & Ali, W.K. (2022) Description of the predator bush cricket, Saga epphippigera Fischer von Waldheim, 1846 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) from Erbil Province, Kurdistan Region - Iraq. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, 17(1), 15–26. Available at http://jnhm.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/BINHM/article/view/686
  • Khudhur, F.A. & Ahmed, S.H. (2020) New distribution records of the genus Saga Charpentier, 1825 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Saginae) from Iraq. Zootaxa, 4894(2), 297–300.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Kolics, B., Ács, Z., Chobanov, D.P., Orci, K.M., Qiang, L.S., Kovács, B., Kondorosy, E., Decsi, K., Taller, J., Specziár, A., Orbán, L. & Müller, T. (2012) Re-visiting phylogenetic and taxonomic elationships in the genus Saga (Insecta: Orthoptera). PLoS One, 7(8), 1–13. Available at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0042229
  • Krauss, H.A. (1879) Die Orthopteren-Fauna Istriens. Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (Abt. 1), 78, 451–542. Available at http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/SBAWW_78_0451-0544.pdf
  • Lucas, P.H. (1864) Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 4, v. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34161#page/747/mode/1up
  • Mahasneh, A. & Katbeh-Bader, A. (2004) A taxonomic study on the long-horned grasshoppers of Jordan (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Denisia 04, zugleich Kataloge des Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums, Neue Folge, 14, 245–264.
  • Matthey, R. (1946) Démonstration du caractère géographique de la parthénogenèse de Saga pedo Pallas et de sa polyploïdie, par comparaison avec les espèces bisexuées S. ephipiggera Fisch. et S. gracilipes Uvar. Experientia (Basel), 2, 260–261.
  • Mol, A., Taylan, M.S., Demir, E. & Sirin, D. (2016) Contribution to the knowledge of Ensifera (Insecta: Orthoptera) fauna of Turkey. Journal of the Entomological Research Society, 18(1), 75–98. Available at http://www.entomol.org/journal/index.php/JERS/article/view/960
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  • Sevgili, H., Demirsoy, A. & Durmus, Y. (2012) Orthoptera fauna of Kemaliye (Erzincan). Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry, 40(4), 317–335. Available at http://www.hjbc.hacettepe.edu.tr/article/40/4/317
  • Sirin, D., Taylan, M.S., Sevgili, H. & Mol, A. (2019) Bioacoustics review of Anatolian species of the predatory bush-cricket genus Saga (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Saginae) with the description of a new species. Zootaxa, 4664(1), 83–102.
  • Sirin, D., Taylan, M.S., Sevgili, H., Kaya, S., Bircan, R., Akyıldız, D.H. & Güngör, O. (2026) Lineage sorting by tectonic evolution: Miocene tectonism-driven diversification of the genus Saga (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in the Anatolian and Balkan–Dinaric regions. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 207(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag084
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  • Werner, F. (1905) Die Verbreitung und Lebensweise der Riesenheuschrecken aus der Gattung Saga, insbesonders in Europa. Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins an der Universität Wien, 3, 1–4. Available at http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/MNVUniWien_3_0001-0004.pdf
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Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek ἐφίππιον, saddle and Latin suffix -ger, carrying, relating to the shape of the pronotum (original French name: Saga porte-selle).

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