Superfamily Tettigonioidea Scientific name Ephippiger Rank Genus | Subphylum Hexapoda | |
Similar Orthoptera, Barbitistes, Platycleis, Bradyporinae, Decticus | ||
Saddle backed bush cricket ephippiger diurnus zadelsprinkhaan belgium 1 9 2016
Ephippiger is a bush cricket genus described by Berthold in 1827, belonging to the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Bradyporinae.
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Saddle backed bush cricket ephippiger epippiger
Description
In this genus, the bush crickets have very small wings and the pronotum resembles a saddle (the Latin name ephippium means 'saddle of a horse'). The atrophied wings of Ephippiger species are unfit to flight and only used for the emission of sounds (stridulation).
Distribution
Species of this genus are mainly present in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Spain, Iran and Switzerland.
List of Species
References
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