Lamenting grasshopper (Eyprepocnemis plorans)

Eyprepocnemis plorans
Other common names
Berseem grasshopper
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Eyprepocnemidinae
Tribe:	Eyprepocnemidini
Genus:	Eyprepocnemis
Scientific name
Eyprepocnemis plorans (Charpentier, 1825)
Geography
Native countries:
Germany Morocco Tunisia Iran Israel Spain Turkey France Greece Algeria South Africa Tanzania Cyprus
Pest status
Known pest

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Taxonomy

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

Subspecies

• Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans (Charpentier, 1825)
• Eyprepocnemis plorans pallida Uvarov, 1921
• Eyprepocnemis plorans ibandana Giglio-Tos, 1907
• Eyprepocnemis plorans meridionalis Uvarov, 1921
• Eyprepocnemis plorans ornatipes (Walker, 1870)

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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.

• Khadija El bouchikhi — 37 specimens collected
• Katja Schulz — 7 specimens collected
• Rafel Matamales Andreu — 6 specimens collected

• Dino Biancolini — 6 specimens collected
• Sebastian Ćato — 5 specimens collected
• Duarte Frade — 5 specimens collected
• Tiago Carrapiço — 4 specimens collected
• Azat Kadirov — 3 specimens collected
• Yonatan Gur — 3 specimens collected
• Alexey Katz — 3 specimens collected
• Tommy Andriollo — 3 specimens collected
• Steffen Kittlaus — 2 specimens collected
• HADDAD Karim — 2 specimens collected
• Santiago Martín-Bravo — 2 specimens collected
• Luis Moreira da Costa — 1 specimen collected
• Oleg Kosterin — 1 specimen collected
• Mykyta Peregrym — 1 specimen collected
• Daniel Killam — 1 specimen collected
• Pedro Beja — 1 specimen collected
• Krista Oswald — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• Katja Schulz — 7 specimens identified
• Rafel Matamales Andreu — 6 specimens identified
• Sebastian Ćato — 4 specimens identified

• Tiago Carrapiço — 4 specimens identified
• Azat Kadirov — 3 specimens identified
• Josip Skejo — 2 specimens identified
• Duarte Frade — 2 specimens identified
• Yonatan Gur — 2 specimens identified
• Santiago Martín-Bravo — 2 specimens identified
• Rob Felix — 2 specimens identified
• Alexey Katz — 2 specimens identified
• Mykyta Peregrym — 1 specimen identified
• Daniel Killam — 1 specimen identified
• Pedro Beja — 1 specimen identified
• Степан Ломако — 1 specimen identified
• Quentin Groom — 1 specimen identified
• 태우 김 — 1 specimen identified
• Joan Díaz-Calafat — 1 specimen identified
• Leif Moritz — 1 specimen identified
• Victor Gonzalez-Garcia — 1 specimen identified