Acrometopa servillea

Seen in Arillas, Corfu this year. Distinct lack of bugs this year, This one was missing part of it's leg.

comments (2)

WildFlower

Lion

I am not convinced this is Tettigonia viridissima. The legs should be more robust with small black spots and spines, the ovipositor should be long and strait and wings slightly longer too. Here the ovipositor looks curled up. This should be Acrometopa servillea, although A. macropoda is similar.
http://www.pyrgus.de/Tettigonia_viridissima_en.html
http://www.uksafari.com/great_green_bush_crickets.htm
http://www.linnea.it/tettigonia-viridissima/
http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=4182
http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1137181
http://www.grasshoppersofeurope.com/linnaeus_ng//app/views/species/nsr_taxon.php?id=1642
http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id284507/?taxonid=273009&type=1 Posted 8 years ago, modified 8 years ago
1. Stuart
  
  Lion
  
  Hi and thank you for your advice as well as creating the species for me. Seems I'm rather out of practice with identifying bugs correctly! Posted 8 years ago

Acrometopa servillea is a European species of katydid.

Species identified by WildFlower

Uploaded Jul 15, 2017. Captured Jul 4, 2017 20:46 in Unnamed Road, Kerkira 490 81, Greece.