Shielded oak bush-cricket (Cyrtaspis scutata)

Cyrtaspis scutata
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Meconematinae
Tribe:	Meconematini
Genus:	Cyrtaspis
Scientific name
Cyrtaspis scutata (Charpentier, 1825)
Geography
Native countries:
Portugal Spain France Gibraltar Italy Monaco Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina Slovenia Vatican City San Marino
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The Shielded oak bush-cricket (Cyrtaspis scutata) is a species of cricket or katydid in the subfamily Meconematinae (arboreal predatory 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.

• Sebastian Ćato — 5 specimens collected
• Luis Pascoal da Silva — 5 specimens collected
• Emiliano Mori — 1 specimen collected

• Louis AUREGLIA — 1 specimen collected
• Gilles San Martin — 1 specimen collected
• Josip Skejo — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• Sebastian Ćato — 5 specimens identified
• Holger Braun — 5 specimens identified
• Luis Pascoal da Silva — 4 specimens identified

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

References

Taxon identifiers

BioLibCatalogue of LifeEASINEncyclopedia of LifeEUNISFauna EuropaeaFauna Europaea NewGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistIRMNGNederlands SoortenregisterObservation.orgOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new)TAXREFXeno-canto