Epacromius tergestinus (Megerle von Mühlfeld in Charpentier, 1825 )

Skejo, Josip, Rebrina, Fran, Szövényi, Gergely, Puskás, Gellért & Tvrtković, Nikola, 2018, The first annotated checklist of Croatian crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera), Zootaxa 4533 (1), pp. 1-95 : 65

72. Epacromius tergestinus (Megerle von Mühlfeld in Charpentier, 1825)

72.1. Epacromius tergestinus tergestinus (Megerle von Mühlfeld in Charpentier, 1825) = otočni pjegavi skakavac

First faunistic record for Croatia: Puskás et al. 2018

Distribution in Croatia: Nominal subspecies only. Very rare, known from a single locality (alkaline seashore grassland near Osor, Cres Island: Szövenyi 10.VIII.2000, 07.VII.2017 ( Puskás et al. 2018)). Historical records of this species in Istria ( Fieber 1853, Fischer 1853, Redtenbacher 1900) are not confirmed.

Distribution in Europe: Rare species with heavily fragmented distribution. Two subspecies inhabit Europe—(1) E. t. tergestinus along the coastlines of the Altlantic ocean in France, the Adriatic Sea in Italy and Croatia, and the coast of the Black Sea in Romania (all occurrences isolated and small), (2) E. t. ponticus inhabits several alpine rivers in the French Alps ( Zuna-Kratky et al. 2016).

IUCN Red List status: [Least Concern (Europe)], Endangered (EU28) ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).