Ruspolia nitidula (Scopoli, 1786)

Skejo, Josip, Rebrina, Fran, Szövényi, Gergely, Puskás, Gellért & Tvrtković, Nikola, 2018, The first annotated checklist of Croatian crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera), Zootaxa 4533 (1), pp. 1-95 : 20

7. Ruspolia nitidula (Scopoli, 1786) = veliki (konjic) čunjoglavac ( Fig. 3C )

First faunistic record for Croatia: Graber 1870

Also recorded as: Locusta mandibularis Charpentier, 1825 ( Kollar 1846, Krauss 1879), Locusta tuberculata Rossius, 1790 ( Cubich 1875)

Distribution in Croatia: Widely distributed and common in all regions.

Distribution in Europe: From Sicily and Crete in the south to Northern France in the north, and from the Azores in the west to Southern European Russia in the east ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Diversity of Croatian Ensifera—Tettigoniidae: Bradyporinae, Conocephalinae, Meconematinae, Phaneropterinae. A. Ephippiger discoidalis (Lič 9.IX.2014. F. Rebrina), B. Ephippiger ephippiger (Lička Plješivica—Krbavsko polje 2.VIII.2017. N. Tvrtković), C. Ruspolia nitidula (Hrvatsko 30.VIII.2014. F. Rebrina), D. Meconema thalassinum (Kruščica 7.VIII.2014. F. Rebrina), and E. Barbitistes kaltenbachi (Vis Isl. 21.VII.2011. R. Felix).