Saga pedo (Pallas, 1771)


Saga pedo: Female (Provence, Massif de la Sainte Baume, late September 2014) [N] Saga pedo: Female (Provence, Massif de la Sainte Baume, late September 2014) [N] Saga pedo: Female (Provence, Massif de la Sainte Baume, late September 2014) [N] Saga pedo: Female (Provence, Massif de la Sainte Baume, late September 2014) [N] Saga pedo: Female (Provence, Massif de la Sainte Baume, late September 2014) [N] Saga pedo: Female (Provence, Massif de la Sainte Baume, late September 2014) [N] Saga pedo: Female (Provence, Massif de la Sainte Baume, late September 2014) [N] Saga pedo: Female (Provence, Massif de la Sainte Baume, late September 2014) [N] Saga pedo: Female [M] Saga pedo: Female [M] Saga pedo: Female older larva (Provence 2011) [S] Saga pedo: Female older larva (Provence 2011) [S] Saga pedo: Habitat in the provence (Ste. Victoire, 2011) [N] Saga pedo: Habitat in Massif de la Sainte Baume (S-France, late September 2014) [N] Saga pedo: Habitat in Massif de la Sainte Baume (S-France, late September 2014) [N]

Nutrition:
The species is a predatory species that overwhelms as well large insects such as Decticus albifrons.

Habitat:
Saga pedo inhabits dry, warm, richly structured grassland slopes and maquis with bushes and higher growing areas from the lowlands to about 1400m above sea level.

Life cycle:
The eggs overwinter in the ground several times. Adults occur from late June to October. Usually this species can only be observed singly. Reproduction is obviously in most cases purely parthenogenetic. Males occur only as an exception.

Endangerment factors:
Saga pedo is threatened due to the decline of suitable habitat, especially in the few advanced distribution islands in Central Europe, but also in the Mediterranean area by the land consumption of man (mainly agriculture, but also industry, transport infrastructure and tourism) and reforestation.

Remarks:
In Central Europe only a few sites are known, such as the lower Valais in the Rhone Valley, the Alpine Rhine Valley near Chur and southeast Austria. The main distribution reches from Spain to Albania in the Mediterranean.



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