Ephippiger terrestris, common name Alpine saddle-backed bush-cricket, is a bush cricket species belonging to the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Bradyporinae.

[1] Subspecies include:[2] This species is present in Middle and Southwestern Europe (France, Italy and Switzerland).

[5] This species occurs in warm mountain meadows and pastures, in open rocks and in dwarf shrubs,[5] at an elevation of 1,000–2,000 metres (3,300–6,600 ft) above sea level.

The form of the pronotum is rather smooth and gently concave and resembles a saddle (the Latin name ephippium means 'saddle of a horse').

They have round small atrophied wings, protruding a few millimeters below the pronotum, that are unfit to flight and only used for the emission of sounds (stridulation).