Asiotmethis muricatus (Pallas, 1771)

Popova, Kristina V., Molodtsov, Vladimir V. & Sergeev, Michael G., 2020, Rare grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) of the Baraba and Kulunda steppes (South Siberia), Acta Biologica Sibirica 6, pp. 595-609 : 595

Asiotmethis muricatus (Pallas, 1771)

Pointed stone grasshopper Figure 2

General distribution.

SE European Russia, Kazakhstan, S West Siberia.

Local distribution and ecology.

The species was (and is) very rare. It prefers habitats with scarce vegetation in the typical and dry steppes (commonly with some sagebrushes). A. muricatus is an early hatching grasshopper. Its adults can be usually observed in the first half of a summer. That explains, at least partly, its relative rarity, because here acridologists usually prefer to collect grasshoppers in the second part of a summer.

Remarks.

Some old data concerning its distribution may belong to to the next species described only in 1926.

Figures

Figures 2 - 9. 2 - Asiotmethis muricatus. 3 - Asiotmethis jubatus. 4 - Arcyptera fusca. 5 - Notostaurus albicornis. 6 - Eremippus simplex. 7 - Stenobothrus carbonarius. 8 - Myrmeleotettix antennatus. 9 - Megaulacobothrus aethalinus.