Brown-spotted bush-cricket (Tessellana tessellata)

Tessellana tessellata
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Tettigoniinae
Tribe:	Platycleidini
Genus:	Tessellana
Scientific name
Tessellana tessellata (Charpentier, 1825)
Geography
Native countries:
Cyprus Spain France Greece Portugal
Introduced countries:
United States
Sound
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The Brown-spotted bush-cricket (Tessellana tessellata) is a species of cricket or katydid in the subfamily Tettigoniinae (shield-backed katydids).

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Taxonomy

For full nomenclature and taxonomic details of this taxon, see Orthoptera Species File

Subspecies

• Tessellana tessellata tessellata (Charpentier, 1825)
• Tessellana tessellata holoptera Ramme, 1951

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Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species.

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Gilles San Martin — 6 specimens collected
• Luis Pascoal da Silva — 5 specimens collected
• Josip Skejo — 4 specimens collected

• Raoul Gerend — 4 specimens collected
• Tiago Carrapiço — 4 specimens collected
• Sebastian Ćato — 3 specimens collected
• Ken Robert Schneider — 3 specimens collected
• Pedro Beja — 2 specimens collected
• Louis AUREGLIA — 2 specimens collected
• Ken-ichi Ueda — 2 specimens collected
• Octávio Mateus — 2 specimens collected
• David Marcelo Torres Arizaga — 2 specimens collected
• Daniel Killam — 1 specimen collected
• François DUSOULIER — 1 specimen collected
• Jacob Gorneau — 1 specimen collected
• Ivan Paz-Vinas — 1 specimen collected
• Zachary Dankowicz — 1 specimen collected
• Duarte Frade — 1 specimen collected
• Jakob Fahr — 1 specimen collected
• Valentin Moser — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Tyler Grant — 7 specimens identified
• Gilles San Martin — 6 specimens identified
• Luis Pascoal da Silva — 5 specimens identified

• Josip Skejo — 4 specimens identified
• Raoul Gerend — 4 specimens identified
• Slobodan Ivkovic — 3 specimens identified
• Sebastian Ćato — 3 specimens identified
• Ken Robert Schneider — 2 specimens identified
• Octávio Mateus — 2 specimens identified
• Daniel Killam — 1 specimen identified
• Pedro Beja — 1 specimen identified
• François DUSOULIER — 1 specimen identified
• Zachary Dankowicz — 1 specimen identified
• Jakob Fahr — 1 specimen identified
• Valentin Moser — 1 specimen identified
• Andre Hospers — 1 specimen identified
• David Marcelo Torres Arizaga — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

BOLD SystemsCalPhotosCatalogue of LifeFauna Europaea NewGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistNCBI taxonomyNederlands SoortenregisterOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)TAXREFUMLS CUI