Anacridium aegyptium (Linnaeus, 1764)

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 : 51

19. Anacridium aegyptium (Linnaeus, 1764) = egipatska šaška

First faunistic record for Croatia: Germar 1817

Also reported as: Gryllus lineola Fabricius, 1781 ( Germar 1817) , Acridium tataricum (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Kollar 1846) , A. tartaricum [misspelled name] ( Pungur 1899),

Distribution in Croatia: Widely distributed and rather common in the Mediterranean part of the country, in the Dinaric Alps it is found in localities with the Mediterranean influence. There is a doubtful record from Srijem (=Szerém) ( Pungur 1899). Occasionally this species is known to produce swarms in Istria and Dalmatia, and is well known among local people along the Adriatic coast.

Distribution in Europe: Mediterranean species widely distributed in the Iberian peninsula, Apennine peninsula, Mediterranean (coastal) part of the Balkans, Mediterranean islands, and Crimea ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).