Eastern saw-tailed bush-cricket (Barbitistes constrictus)

Barbitistes constrictus
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Phaneropterinae
Tribe:	Barbitistini
Genus:	Barbitistes
Scientific name
Barbitistes constrictus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
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The Eastern saw-tailed bush-cricket (Barbitistes constrictus) is a species of cricket or katydid in the subfamily Phaneropterinae (bush katydids).

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Taxonomy

For full nomenclature and taxonomic details of this taxon, see Orthoptera Species File No subspecies recorded for this taxon.

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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.

• Andrzej Oleksa — 5 specimens collected
• Andrius Petrašiūnas — 3 specimens collected
• Villu Soon — 2 specimens collected

• Alexey Seregin — 2 specimens collected
• Vojtech Tlaskal — 2 specimens collected
• Todd Patterson — 2 specimens collected
• Fabian A. Boetzl — 1 specimen collected
• Vladimír Fuka — 1 specimen collected
• Kacper Bielecki — 1 specimen collected
• Mattia Menchetti — 1 specimen collected
• Igor Balashov — 1 specimen collected
• Hubert Szczygiel — 1 specimen collected
• Antoine Simon — 1 specimen collected
• Roland Achtziger — 1 specimen collected
• Valentin Moser — 1 specimen collected
• Andre Hospers — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• Oto Kaláb — 6 specimens identified
• Andrzej Oleksa — 4 specimens identified
• Andrius Petrašiūnas — 3 specimens identified

• Villu Soon — 2 specimens identified
• Slobodan Ivkovic — 1 specimen identified
• Kacper Bielecki — 1 specimen identified
• Antoine Simon — 1 specimen identified
• Roland Achtziger — 1 specimen identified
• Todd Patterson — 1 specimen identified
• Valentin Moser — 1 specimen identified
• Andre Hospers — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

BioLibBOLD SystemsCalPhotosCatalogue of LifeCzech NDOPeBiodiversityEncyclopedia of LifeEPPOEUNISFauna EuropaeaFauna Europaea NewGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistInsects (Insecta) of the WorldIRMNGIUCNizeltlabuak.huNCBI taxonomyObservation.orgOnline PWN EncyclopediaOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new)UMLS CUIXeno-cantoZOBODAT