Chorthippus Fieber, 1852

Storozhenko, S. Yu. & Benediktov, A. A., 2020, AN ANNOTATED CHECK-LIST OF ORTHOPTERA OF TUVA AND ADJACENT REGIONS. PART 3. SUBRODER CAELIFERA (ACRIDIDAE: GOMPHOCERINAE: GOMPHOCERINI; LOCUSTINAE), Far Eastern Entomologist 402, pp. 1-36 : 6

Genus Chorthippus Fieber, 1852

5(69). Chorthippus apricarius (Linnaeus, 1758)

Stenobothrus apricarius: Miram, 1907: 5 .

Chorthippus (Chorthippus) apricarius apricarius: Sergeev, 1986: 207 .

Chorthippus apricarius: Ivanova, 1967: 132 ; Vedenina & Bukhvalova, 2001: 117.

Chorthippus apricarius apricarius: Berezhkov, 1956: 113 .

MATERIAL. Tuva: W Sayan Mts., Alash Plateau, Ak-Sug River, 51°37ʹN, 90°05ʹE, 1450 m,

terraces and flood-plain, short meadows, 14.VIII 2016, 1 ♂ (MS); Turan-Uyuk Intermountain Basin,

Begreda River, 51°59ʹN, 94°18ʹE, 829 m, terrace, meadow, 12.VIII 2018, 4 ♂, 3 ♀, 1 larva (MS); E Tuva,

Academician Obruchev Range, southern slope, Koptu (Khapto) River, 51°37ʹN, 95°21ʹE, 781–784 m,

lower terrace and flood-plain, meadow, 11.VIII 2018, 2 ♂, 5 ♀, 2 larvae (MS); W Tannu-Ola Mts. , 3 km

S Torgalyg settlement, mountain steppe, 24. VI 1962, 1 ♀ (IS). Krasnoyarsk Region: southern part, W

Sayan Mts. , Us Intermountain Basin, near abandoned Idzhim settlement, 52°20′N, 93°20′E, 700–750 m ,

low terrace, meadow, 22.VII 1995, 1 larva (MS); the same locality, 52°16′N, 93°07′E, 680–700 m ,

terraces and southern slope, steppes, 22–23.VII 1995, 1 ♀ (MS).

REMARKS. The species was mentioned from NW Tuva for the first time by Sergeev &

Baturina (2017).

DISTRIBUTION (nominotypical subspecies). Tuva: WSW, WSE, ET, WTO. – Europe

(except the extreme North), S Siberia; Asia Minor, Kazakhstan, NW, N, NE China, Mongolia

(including the Mongolian part of Uvs-Nuur Basin (Chogsomzhav, 1977)). Other subspecies occur in the Tatra Mts., Caucasus, Asia Minor, Kopetdagh, Tien Shan, Pamiro-Alay, Afghanistan.

ECOLOGY. In Tuva, relatively rare species associated with the dry meadows.