Acrida ungarica (Herbst, 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 : 49

13. Acrida ungarica (Herbst, 1786)

13.1. Acrida ungarica ungarica (Herbst, 1786) = nosati skakavac ( Fig. 7C )

First faunistic record for Croatia: Germar 1817

Also reported as: Truxalis nasuta (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Kollar 1846) , Truxalis hungaricus Fabricius [correct author of Truxalis ungaricus is Herbst, 1786] ( Germar 1817), Truxalis turrita (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Krauss 1879) , A. m. mediterranea ( Dirsh 1949) syn. nov. ( Dirsh 1949, Adamović 1964), A. meridionalis ( Dirsh 1949) ( Us 1967) [there is no species named A. meridionalis and Us (1967) probably confused it for ‘ mediterranea ’], A. bicolor (Thunberg, 1815) ( Cigliano et al. 2018) , A. mediterranea lombardica Dirsh, 1949 syn. rev. ( Dirsh 1949)

Distribution in Croatia: Nominal subspecies only. According to old division (see Cigliano et al. 2018), A. u. ungarica is found in sandy areas of Pannonian Croatia, while A. u. mediterranea is found along the Adriatic coast and on the adjacent islands.

Distribution in Europe: Mediterranean species distributed in the Iberian, Apennine and Balkan Peninsulas, as well as on Mediterranean islands to Cyprus and reaching European Russia (eastern distribution border). Austria and Slovakia represent its northern distribution border, while in Czechia the species has been probably introduced ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).

Taxonomic note: We regard A. u. mediterranea synonymous with the nominal subspecies, because no significant morphological differences were found after comparison of Pannonian (Croatian, Hungarian and Serbian) and Mediterranean (Italian, Croatian, Montenegrian, Albanian) specimens (unpublished data).

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FIGURE 7. Diversity of Croatian Caelifera—Tridactylidae, Tetrigidae, Acrididae: Acridinae, Catantopinae, Gomphocerinae. A. Xya pfaendleri (Kloštarski peski 9.VIII.2013. J. Skejo), B. Tetrix subulata (Gorski kotar 4.VI.2015. J. Skejo), C. Acrida ungarica (Murter IX.2012. J. Skejo), D. Pezotettix giornae (Murter IX.2012. J. Skejo), E. Chorthippus apicarius (Paklenica 26.VII.2014. J. Skejo), and F. Chorthippus mollis lesinensis (Biokovo 27.VII.2016. J. Skejo).