Eupholidoptera schmidti (Fieber, 1861)

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 : 29

44. Eupholidoptera schmidti (Fieber, 1861) = crno-zeleni kožokrili konjic

First faunistic record for Croatia: Frauenfeld 1861

Also recorded as: Thamnotrizon Chabrieri ( Charpentier, 1825) ( Frauenfeld 1861)

Distribution in Croatia: Common along the Adriatic coast (including islands) and the Dinaric Alps. Also recorded in the Pannonian region (Papuk Mt.: Szövényi & Puskás 2012).

Distribution in Europe: Western Balkan Peninsula from northeastern Italy to Western Bulgaria and northern Greece ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).

Taxonomic and distributional note: Us (1967) and Harz (1969) reported only E. chabrieri schmidti from Istria and along the Adriatic coast, with terra typica in Istria. Since Us (1967), E. chabrieri has been reported from numerous localities along the Adriatic coast, but Ramme (in Çiplak et al. 2007), Nagy (2006), and Szövényi & Puskás (2012) extended its known distribution to Pannonian Croatia (Žumberak and Samoborsko gorje Mts., and Papuk Mt.). In DORSA (2017), specimens from Žumberak and Samoborsko gorje Mts. are reported under E. c. chabrieri ( Nagy 2006) , but Nadig (1987) considered this subspecies to be a zoogeographical element of the Western Alps. Adamović (1972) described E. chabrieri usi from Lošinj Isl., which Nadig (1985) later reported also from Krk Isl. Çiplak et al. (2007) revised the morphology of E. chabrieri complex in the Balkans, concluding that E. c. schmidti and E. c. usi are conspecific. Massa et al. (2012) listed E. chabrieri and E. schmidti as separate species. The most reliable discriminating character between the taxa is the shape of the titillators ( Harz 1969, Lemonnier-Darcemont 2007, Massa et al. 2012). In a recent phylogenetic study on the genus, Allegrucci et al. (2013) confirmed specific status of E. schmidti .