{{Short description|Genus of katydids}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia sp.-1.-1.JPG | image_caption = Young female ''Tettigonia viridissima'' | taxon = Tettigonia | authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | synonyms = * ''Eumenymus'' <small>Pictet, 1888</small> * ''Locusta'' <small>Fabricius, 1775</small> * ''Phasgonura'' <small>Stephens, 1835</small> }}
'''''Tettigonia''''' is the type genus of bush crickets belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Linnaeus |first=C. |title=Systema Naturae per Regna tria naturae |date=1758 |edition=10th |volume=1 |pages=429 |oclc=165125101}}</ref> The scientific name ''Tettigonia'' is onomatopoeic and derives from the Greek τεττιξ, meaning cicada.
Species of this genus are typically quite large insects, with relatively massive bodies, green or brownish colour and long hindlegs. For example, great green bush-crickets, the type species described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', are the largest Orthopterans in the British Isles.<ref name="Ragge">{{cite book |author=Ragge |first=D. R. |title=Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles |publisher=Frederick Warne & Co. |year=1965 |pages=299}}</ref>
Most ''Tettigonia'' species are present in Europe, North Africa and the Asian mainland, apart from ''Tettigonia orientalis'' which occurs in Japan.<ref name = OSF/>
==Species== The ''Orthoptera Species File''<ref name="OSF">{{Cite web |title=genus Tettigonia Linnaeus, 1758: Orthoptera Species File |url=http://orthoptera.archive.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142767 |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=Orthoptera Species File Online}}</ref> lists: {{div col}} * ''Tettigonia armeniaca'' <small>Tarbinsky, 1940</small> (synonyms ''T. acutipennis'' <small>Ebner, 1946</small>; ''T. turcica'' <small>Ramme, 1951</small>) * ''Tettigonia balcanica'' <small>Chobanov & Lemonnier-Darcemont, 2014</small> * ''Tettigonia cantans'' <small>(Fuessly, 1775)</small> * ''Tettigonia caudata'' <small>(Charpentier, 1842)</small> * ''Tettigonia chinensis'' <small>Willemse, 1933</small> * ''Tettigonia chitralensis'' <small>Sultana, Panhwar & Wagan, 2015</small> * ''Tettigonia dolichoptera'' <small>Mori, 1933</small> * ''Tettigonia hispanica'' <small>Bolívar, 1893</small> * ''Tettigonia ibuki'' <small>Furukawa, 1938</small> * ''Tettigonia jungi'' <small>Storozhenko, Kim & Jeon, 2015</small> * ''Tettigonia krugeri'' <small>Massa, 1998</small> * ''Tettigonia longealata'' <small>Chopard, 1937</small> * ''Tettigonia longispina'' <small>Ingrisch, 1983</small> * ''Tettigonia lozanoi'' <small>(Bolívar, 1914)</small> * ''Tettigonia macrocephalus'' <small>(Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)</small> * ''Tettigonia macroxipha'' <small>(Bolívar, 1914)</small> * ''Tettigonia orientalis'' <small>Uvarov, 1924</small> * ''Tettigonia savignyi'' <small>(Lucas, 1849)</small> * ''Tettigonia silana'' <small>Capra, 1936</small> * ''Tettigonia tsushimensis'' <small>Ogawa, 2003</small> * ''Tettigonia ussuriana'' <small>Uvarov, 1939</small> * ''Tettigonia uvarovi'' <small>Ebner, 1946</small> * ''Tettigonia vaucheriana'' <small>(Pictet, 1888)</small> * ''Tettigonia viridissima'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> - '''type species''' (as ''Gryllus viridissimus'' L.) * ''Tettigonia yama'' <small>Furukawa, 1938</small> {{div col end}}
==Gallery== <gallery> Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia sp.-2.-2.JPG|Nymph Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia sp...JPG|Nymph Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia cantans-1.jpg|Female ''Tettigonia cantans'' Tettigoniidae - Tettigonia cantans-3.jpg|Male ''Tettigonia cantans'' Tettigonia cantans m 10191.jpg|''Tettigonia cantans'' Tettigonia cantans bl.JPG|''Tettigonia cantans'' (MHNT) Tettigonia viridissima on Avena fatua.jpg|Male ''Tettigonia viridissima'' Heupferd fg01.jpg|Female ''Tettigonia viridissima'' </gallery>
==See also== *List of Orthopteroid genera containing species recorded in Europe
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline}} {{Taxonbar |from=Q1349733}}
Category:Tettigoniinae Category:Tettigoniidae genera