Arcyptera fusca (Pallas, 1773)

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

Arcyptera fusca (Pallas, 1773)

Large banded grasshopper Figure 4

General distribution.

From the mountains of S Europe to Amur Region of Russia and to NE China; including Moldova, Ukraine, the southern part of European Russia, the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, S Siberia up to Sakha (Yakutia), Mongolia.

Local distribution and ecology.

In the first half of the 20th century the species was found in many localities, chiefly in the forest-steppes and in the steppes with forest patches, because it prefers some meadows with broadleaf forbs and grasses. During last decades this species was collected only in two locations. It is also rare in the forest-steppes on the left side of the Ob River, but in the Altay Mts., A. fusca may be very abundant locally. Evident downgrading of species populations in the region can be associated with intensive agricultural activity and the following destruction of meadows along forest edges.

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.