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Saga pedo
Species of cricket-like animal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saga pedo is a species of wingless bush cricket from the southern half of Europe and western and central Asia. This brown or green bush cricket typically has a total length, from the head to the tip of the ovipositor, of up to 10.5 cm (4.1 in),[3] but exceptionally it may reach 12 cm (4.7 in), which makes it one of the largest European insects[1][4] and one of the world's largest Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets and alike).[5] The head-and-body alone typically is 5–7 cm (2.0–2.8 in) long in adults,[3][6] but may reach up to 7.8 cm (3.1 in).[7][8]
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Brown female in France | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Ensifera |
Family: | Tettigoniidae |
Genus: | Saga |
Species: | S. pedo |
Binomial name | |
Saga pedo (Pallas, 1771) | |
Colloquially known as the predatory bush cricket, or the spiked magician (due to the "enchanting" manner in which it waves its forelimbs as it approaches its prey),[9] it is unusual due to its strictly carnivorous lifestyle and its parthenogenetic reproduction (only females exist and they breed by themselves).[10]