Acridinae

Massa, Bruno, 2020, Annotated checklist of Orthoptera of the Maltese Islands, Zootaxa 4885 (1), pp. 107-124 : 117

Subfamily: Acridinae

Acrida ungarica mediterranea Dirsh, 1949

Not uncommon within xeric environments, especially on karstland colonized by steppic vegetation, including andropogonid grass steppe.

Distribution. Mediterranean.

[ Truxalis nasuta (Linnaeus, 1758) ]

This species, which Valletta (1955) and Saliba (1963) regarded as “very rare” and “relatively rare” respectively, has not been recorded for almost six decades. Unless this was a case of a misidentified Acrida ungarica mediterranea , this species is likely to have been extirpated. However, it is probably a case of the former.