Podisma pedestris (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 63

64. Podisma pedestris (Linnaeus, 1758) = gorski skakavac stjenoplaz ( Fig. 9B )

First faunistic record for Croatia: Fischer 1853

Distribution in Croatia: Nominal subspecies only. Not common, found in isolated localities in the Dinaric Alps and possibly Pannonian mountains (a record by Jurinac 1887a needs to be checked). A specimen labeled 'Dalmatia: Split' from Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest ( Puskás et al. 2018) was probably caught in the surrounding Dinaric Alps.

Distribution in Europe: Disjunct distribution with the southern range extending from the Pyrenean mountains across the Alps and the lower mountain areas of Central Europe into the Balkans, reaching the Black Sea. The northern range covers Scandinavia, Finland and Northwestern Russia. Two range-restricted subspecies inhabit the Italian Alps (P. p. caprai in the Alpi Finestre in Piemonte and P. p. nadigi in the Northeastern Trentino). Apart from the Alps, occurrences are often isolated and separated by vast uninhabited areas ( Zuna-Kratky et al. 2016).

Figures

FIGURE 9. Diversity of Croatian Caelifera—Acrididae: Melanoplinae, Oedipodinae, Pamphaginae. A. Odontopodisma decipiens (Kruščica 4.VIII.2014. F. Rebrina), B. Podisma pedestris (Dinara N. Tvrtković), C. Pseudopodisma fieberi (Lepenice 30.VIII.2014. F. Rebrina), D. Acrotylus patruelis (Čiovo 17.VI.2017. F. Rebrina), E. Psophus stridulus (Učka 24.VII.2014. J. Skejo), and Prionotropis hystrix (Lisac 29.VII.2015. F. Rebrina).