Myrmeleotettix maculatus

Myrmeleotettix maculatus
Myrmeleotettix maculatus Germany
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Acrididae
Genus: Myrmeleotettix
Species: M. maculatus
Binomial name
Myrmeleotettix maculatus
(Thunberg, 1815) [1]

Myrmeleotettix maculatus is a species belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Gomphocerinae.It is found across the Palearctic east to Siberia. In the north, it is spread from the British Isles to Scandinavia and Russia, north to about the Arctic Circle, in the south to Morocco, over the south of Spain, Calabria and Greece to Turkey . They are found from sea level to about 2,500 meters above sea level, for example in the French Alps and the Balkans.[2][3]

References

  1. Thunberg, C.P. 1815. Hemipterorum maxillosorum genera illustrata plurimisque novis speciebus ditata ac descripta. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 5: 211-302
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. Heiko Bellmann: Der Kosmos Heuschreckenführer. Die Arten Mitteleuropas sicher bestimmen. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-440-10447-8
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