Acrometopa macropoda

Description

Acrometopa macropoda is a species belonging to the family Tettigoniidae subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is found in southern Europe approximately from Trieste on both sides of the Adriatic coast - Italy and Yugoslavia and to the south Greece and the Dinaric Mountains . It prefers dry grasslands and wastelands with loose bushes or higher-growing plants, such as thistles . Taxonomy- may be a subspecies of Acrometopa servillea