Aeropedellus variegatus (Fischer de Waldheim, 1846)

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

Aeropedellus variegatus (Fischer de Waldheim, 1846)

Alpine thick-necked grasshopper Figure 11

General distribution.

N Europe, mountains of S Europe, N Caucasus, Siberia, Far East (the northern parts), Kazakhstan (except the southern parts), Mongolia.

Local distribution and ecology.

A few specimens were observed in the forest-steppes on the left side of the Ob River. The species is common in the different mountain steppes of the Altay-Sayan Mts., from the alpine ones to the dry steppes on piedmont plains of intermountain basins and to the semi-deserts.

Remarks.

Actually almost all specimens from the Kulunda steppe represent Aeropedellus baliolus Mistshenko, 1951.

Figures

Figures 10 - 15. 10 - Gomphocerippus rufus. 11 - Aeropedellus variegatus. 12 - Mesasippus arenosus. 13 - Mecostethus parapleurus. 14 - Locusta migratoria. 15 - Sphingonotus coerulipes.