Acrida ungarica mediterranea Herbst, 1786

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

Acrida ungarica mediterranea Herbst, 1786

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern for European ( Hochkirch et al. 2016) and Global assessments ( Hochkirch et al. 2016a).

Distribution

Mediterranean area and Africa ( Fontana et al. 2002). In Italy, it is widespread in the whole of the country (Sicily and Sardinia included), with some discontinuity in northern Italy ( Baroni et al. 2018, Iorio et al. 2019, Massa et al. 2012).

Notes

It is a thermophilous species, living in all kinds of dry habitats, wet grassland, dunes and wasteland. The adults can be found in summer and autumn ( Fontana et al. 2002, Massa et al. 2012).