| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | ARTHROPODA | INSECTA | ORTHOPTERA | TETTIGONIIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Saga pedo | |||
| Species Authority: | (Pallas, 1771) | |||
Common Name/s:
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Vulnerable B1+2bd ver 2.3 | ||||||||||||
| Year Assessed: | 1996 | ||||||||||||
| Annotations: |
Needs updating
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| Assessor/s: | Orthopteroid Specialist Group | ||||||||||||
| History: |
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| Range Description: | Has a highly scattered distribution across southern European countries. |
| Countries: |
Native:
Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bulgaria; China; Czech Republic; France; Georgia; Germany; Hungary; Italy; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Montenegro; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Spain; Switzerland; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan
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| Habitat and Ecology: | This "Matriarchal katydid" is one of the largest insects in Europe (12 cm in length). It is a carnivore and parthenogenetic grasshopper. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Citation: | Orthopteroid Specialist Group 1996. Saga pedo. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 February 2012. |
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