Common digging grasshopper (Acrotylus insubricus)

Acrotylus insubricus
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Oedipodinae
Tribe:	Acrotylini
Genus:	Acrotylus
Scientific name
Acrotylus insubricus (Scopoli, 1786)
Geography
Native countries:
Albania Cape Verde Cyprus Georgia (country) Italy Morocco Moldova Romania Russia Tunisia Azerbaijan Hungary Israel Slovakia Spain Turkey France Greece Kazakhstan North Macedonia Serbia Algeria Armenia Egypt India Portugal Uzbekistan

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
IUCN European Red List of Grasshoppers, Crickets and Bush-crickets		2016		View URL

Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species. Read more…

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Andre Hospers — 25 specimens collected
• Tiago Carrapiço — 20 specimens collected
• Fabian A. Boetzl — 10 specimens collected

• Valentin Moser — 6 specimens collected
• Africa Gomez — 5 specimens collected
• Gergely Gajda — 5 specimens collected
• Luis Pascoal da Silva — 5 specimens collected
• Марина Горбунова — 4 specimens collected
• Sebastian Ćato — 3 specimens collected
• Pedro Beja — 3 specimens collected
• Jakob Fahr — 3 specimens collected
• Louis AUREGLIA — 2 specimens collected
• Claude Kolwelter — 2 specimens collected
• HADDAD Karim — 2 specimens collected
• Azat Kadirov — 1 specimen collected
• Chris Taklis — 1 specimen collected
• Gilles San Martin — 1 specimen collected
• Steffen Kittlaus — 1 specimen collected
• Attila Lengyel — 1 specimen collected
• Donald Davesne — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Andre Hospers — 19 specimens identified
• Africa Gomez — 5 specimens identified
• Luis Pascoal da Silva — 4 specimens identified

• Марина Горбунова — 4 specimens identified
• Slobodan Ivkovic — 3 specimens identified
• Sebastian Ćato — 3 specimens identified
• Josip Skejo — 3 specimens identified
• Claude Kolwelter — 2 specimens identified
• Rob Felix — 2 specimens identified
• Pedro Beja — 1 specimen identified
• Gilles San Martin — 1 specimen identified
• Attila Lengyel — 1 specimen identified
• Donald Davesne — 1 specimen identified
• Kaarel Sammet — 1 specimen identified
• Yonatan Gur — 1 specimen identified
• HADDAD Karim — 1 specimen identified
• Konstantin Romanov — 1 specimen identified
• Jakob Fahr — 1 specimen identified
• Gergely Gajda — 1 specimen identified