Ruspolia nitidula (Scopoli, 1786)

Holuša, Jaroslav, Kočárek, Petr, Vlk, Robert & Marhoul, Pavel, 2013, Annotated checklist of the grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Czech Republic, Zootaxa 3616 (5), pp. 437-460 : 442

Ruspolia nitidula (Scopoli, 1786)

Material examined. Moravia mer., Jevišovka, 21.viii.2010, 1 M, R. Vlk leg., det. et coll.; Vrbovec-Ječmeništĕ, 26.vii.2011, 1 M, 1 F, P. Marhoul leg, det. et coll., 1 M, R. Vlk leg., det. et coll.; Kobylí-Lacary, 27.vii.2012, 1 nymph F, B. Škrabalová leg., R. Vlk det. et coll.

This species is distributed in Europe, Africa, and the Palearctic part of Asia (Kočárek et al. 2005). In the CR, it has long been considered missing (Kočárek et al. 1999). At present, it is known only from southern Moravia and as a rare species. However, it has recently been spreading and may therefore be found in some other places in the CR (Holuša et al. 2007a). Three pairs of R. nitidula that originated from Hungary were introduced into central Bohemia in 2010 (Slameň in verb.). At the same locality, three singing males were found in 2011 and five singing males were found in 2012. The occurence is not included in this checklist because the population seems to be fixed at the site; no spreading was observed. The site where it was introduced is a very small garden isolated within a built-up area. In neighbouring countries, it occurs in southern Slovakia (Krištín et al. 2007b), in the lowland part of Lower Austria (Zuna-Kratky et al. 2009), and in a small area in the southern-most part of Germany (DGFO 2012).