Saga hellenica

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Saga hellenica
In central Greece
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Genus: Saga
Species:
S. hellenica
Binomial name
Saga hellenica
Kaltenbach, 1967

Saga hellenica is a large species of bush cricket or katydid in the family

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

arsonists
.

References

  1. ^ Saga hellenica. Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria
  • Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Insects of Britain and Northern Europe, Michael Chinery,