Yellow-winged digging grasshopper, Acrotylus longipes (Acrididae: Oedipodinae), confirmed in Croatia

By

Papković, Dora
Jelinčić, Antun

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-2-13

Original Publication

Journal of orthoptera research : JOR

Volume

28

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

1--2

Subjects

Adriatic island , Geographic distribution , Mljet , new record , vulnerable

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Philadelphia, Penn Orthopterists' Society 1992-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.28.30736

 

Abstract

We present the first confirmed record of the threatened yellow-winged digging grasshopper, Acrotyluslongipes (Acrididae: Oedipodinae), from Croatia, from the island of Mljet, in Blace Bay. The yellow-winged digging grasshopper was found on sandy dunes covered with psammophytic vegetation characteristic of this type of habitat. Previously, only two localities of this species were reported from Croatia, both from photographs. This confirmed locality opens the possibility of a wider distribution of this species on similar habitats throughout Croatia.