Chorthippus brunneus (Thunberg, 1815)

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 : 53

27. Chorthippus brunneus (Thunberg, 1815) = dugokrili livadni skakavac

First faunistic record for Croatia: Pongrácz 1944 [we consider this, the first Pannonian record of the species, the first exact record, because records prior to 1944 referred to the coastal area, where C. bornhalmi generally replaces C. brunneus ]

Also reported as: Gryllus bicolor Charpentier, 1825 ( Pungur 1899) (see Taxonomic note)

Distribution in Croatia: Widespread and common in the Pannonian region and Northern Dinaric Alps. In the Mediterranean area locally common, but generally replaced by C. bornhalmi , with which it hybridizes in numerous localities from Istria to Dinara Mt. (central part of the Dinaric Alps) ( Skejo & Ivković 2015). All records from the coastal area before the description of C. bornhalmi are regarded doubtful (especially from the Southern Adriatic Islands and Dubrovnik area).

Distribution in Europe: Widespread, from the Northern Iberian Peninsula to the Balkans and from Ireland to Northern Finland ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).

Taxonomic note: Gryllus bicolor Charpentier, 1825 is a junior subjective synonym of C. brunneus . However, the name has been used in the past for numerous Chorthippus spp. (e.g. C. biguttulus , C. mollis …), thus one should be careful when referring to historical records under this name.