Endangered
Retowski's Tonged Bush-cricket
Anadrymadusa retowskii
Retowski's Tonged Bush-cricket is a katydid in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera) — Anadrymadusa retowskii, recorded as Endangered and tied to Ukraine.
The katydid
Katydids are long-horned orthopterans. Most species sing from vegetation; a few are cave or ground specialists.
Grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets hear and sing. A species may be diagnosed by the song or by a mountain valley.
Range and habitat
One of more than 20 species of the Eastern Mediterranean mountain genus, the only species of the genus in the fauna of Ukraine.
GBIF currently lists 20 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Katydids sing from shrubs or trees. Cave and ground forms in this family are the quiet exceptions.
Song, season, and a named mountain are how many of these insects were split. A silent valley after fire is an empty record.
In crisis
Retowski's Tonged Bush-cricket is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the Russian Wikipedia article on Лесолюбка Ретовского, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q4259906 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
