About Metrioptera saussuriana (Frey-Gessner, 1872)
Metrioptera saussuriana (Frey-Gessner, 1872) is a species in the subfamily Tettigoniinae of the Tettigoniidae family. It is a high meadow species that occurs across many mountains and low mountain ranges of southern Europe. Its distribution spans the Iberian Peninsula (including Portugal and Spain), continues across the Pyrenees and southern France, reaching the French and Swiss Jura as well as the southern and western Alps. Isolated populations of this species are located in the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, some northwestern French islands, and in central Europe near Salzburg. This species is not present in Germany.
