Ladder grasshopper (Stauroderus scalaris)

Stauroderus scalaris
Other common names
Large mountain grasshopper, dark-winged grasshopper
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Gomphocerinae
Tribe:	Gomphocerini
Genus:	Stauroderus
Scientific name
Stauroderus scalaris (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
Synonyms:	Chorthippus scalaris
Geography
Native countries:
France Russia China
Pest status
Known pest
Sound
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Taxonomy

For full nomenclature and taxonomic details of this taxon, see Orthoptera Species File

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Specimen contributors for this species

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Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Andre Hospers — 14 specimens collected
• David Marcelo Torres Arizaga — 14 specimens collected
• Louis AUREGLIA — 12 specimens collected

• Gilles San Martin — 9 specimens collected
• Douglas Ball — 6 specimens collected
• Josip Skejo — 6 specimens collected
• Павел Голяков — 5 specimens collected
• Jakob Fahr — 5 specimens collected
• Elia Guariento — 5 specimens collected
• Fabian A. Boetzl — 3 specimens collected
• Sebastian Ćato — 3 specimens collected
• Tim Adriaens — 3 specimens collected
• Timothée Brütsch — 3 specimens collected
• Konstantin Romanov — 3 specimens collected
• Valentin Moser — 3 specimens collected
• Михаил Кривошеев — 3 specimens collected
• Ivan Paz-Vinas — 2 specimens collected
• Petr Kosachev — 2 specimens collected
• Donald Davesne — 2 specimens collected
• Yaroslav Magazov — 2 specimens collected

Identified by

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

• Josip Skejo — 12 specimens identified
• Andre Hospers — 12 specimens identified
• David Marcelo Torres Arizaga — 12 specimens identified

• Gilles San Martin — 7 specimens identified
• Jakob Fahr — 6 specimens identified
• Sebastian Ćato — 5 specimens identified
• Павел Голяков — 4 specimens identified
• Elia Guariento — 4 specimens identified
• Fabian A. Boetzl — 3 specimens identified
• Douglas Ball — 3 specimens identified
• Tim Adriaens — 3 specimens identified
• Louis AUREGLIA — 3 specimens identified
• Valentin Moser — 3 specimens identified
• Slobodan Ivkovic — 2 specimens identified
• Petr Kosachev — 2 specimens identified
• Donald Davesne — 2 specimens identified
• Konstantin Romanov — 2 specimens identified
• Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval — 1 specimen identified
• Felix Neff — 1 specimen identified
• Timothée Brütsch — 1 specimen identified