Euchorthippus declivus Brisout de Barneville, 1848

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

Euchorthippus declivus Brisout de Barneville, 1848

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

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

Distribution

From Europe to Ukraine ( Fontana et al. 2002). In Italy, it is widespread throughout the mainland, with a few records in Sardinia ( Iorio et al. 2019, Massa et al. 2012).

Notes

It is a xerothermophilus species. It lives in dry, stony and sunny meadows, in clearings and at the edge of the woods. Sometimes, it behaves like a hygrophilous species and inhabits fresh and wet meadows and swampy areas. The adults can be found from July to September ( Fontana et al. 2002).