Oedipoda caerulescens caerulescens Linnaeus, 1758

Della Rocca, Francesca, Stefanelli, Silvia, Cardarelli, Elisa, Bogliani, Giuseppe & Bracco, Francesco, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 57889-57889 : 57889

Oedipoda caerulescens caerulescens Linnaeus, 1758

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern for European assessment ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).

Distribution

Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Asia to China ( Massa et al. 2012). In Italy, it is widespread in the whole country. It is absent from Sardinia ( Iorio et al. 2019, Massa et al. 2012).

Notes

It lives on bare ground in a wide variety of dry, open habitats like grassland, slopes, roadside verges and forest clearings. The adults can be found in summer and autumn ( Massa et al. 2012).