''Stauroderus scalaris'', the large mountain grasshopper, is a species of 'short-horned grasshoppers' belonging to the family
Acrididae
The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known bec ...
subfamily
Gomphocerinae
Gomphocerinae, sometimes called "slant-faced grasshoppers", are a subfamily of grasshoppers found on every continent but Antarctica and Australia.
Tribes and genera
Tribes and genera include:
Arcypterini
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Subspecies
Stauroderus includes the following subspecies:[
* ''Stauroderus scalaris demavendi'' Popov, G.B., 1951
* ''Stauroderus scalaris scalaris'' (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
* ''Stauroderus scalaris znojkoi'' (Miram, 1938)
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Description
The adult males grow up to long, while the females reach of length.[Linnea]
It is the largest species of grasshopper in Europe. The basic coloration of the body varies from pale or bright green to yellow, with dark-brownish wings and tegmina. Femora of hind legs vary from yellow to reddish. In the males median and ulnar wing cells are quite large, with parallel veins. The adults usually live in colonies and the males emit whirring stridulations to attract females.[
These grasshoppers can be encountered from July through September especially in high-altitude alpine meadows and pastures.][
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Distribution
This species is present in most of Europe, in the Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...
, and in the eastern Palearctic realm.[
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References
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Gomphocerinae
Insects described in 1846
Orthoptera of Europe