Red-faced bush-cricket (Sepiana sepium)

Sepiana sepium
Other common names
Sepia bush-cricket
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Tettigoniinae
Tribe:	Platycleidini
Genus:	Sepiana
Scientific name
Sepiana sepium (Yersin, 1854)
Geography
Native countries:
Greece France
Sound
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The Red-faced bush-cricket (Sepiana sepium) 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

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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.

• Viacheslav Krylenko — 12 specimens collected
• Sebastian Ćato — 10 specimens collected
• Luis Moreira da Costa — 3 specimens collected

• Oleg Kosterin — 2 specimens collected
• Gilles San Martin — 2 specimens collected
• Chris Taklis — 1 specimen collected
• Jakob Fahr — 1 specimen collected
• Alexey Katz — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• Sebastian Ćato — 12 specimens identified
• Viacheslav Krylenko — 12 specimens identified
• Holger Braun — 4 specimens identified

• Josip Skejo — 3 specimens identified
• Gilles San Martin — 2 specimens identified
• Slobodan Ivkovic — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

BioLibCatalogue of LifeEncyclopedia of LifeEUNISFauna EuropaeaFauna Europaea NewGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistNCBI taxonomyObservation.orgOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new)TAXREFUMLS CUIXeno-canto