Paracaloptenus cristatus Willemse, 1973

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 : 50

17. Paracaloptenus cristatus Willemse, 1973 = kratkokrili krupnozadi skakavac

First faunistic record for Croatia: Krauss 1879

Also reported as: Caloptenus caloptenoides Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861 ( Krauss 1879) , C. brunneri (Stål, 1876) (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1882)

Distribution in Croatia: Locally abundant, found only in the Dinaric Alps (Učka, Velebit, Mala Kapela, Poštak, Dinara, Kamešnica). Old records of Paracaloptenus caloptenoides (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861) belong to this species.

Distribution in Europe: Dinaric Alps endemic: along the Adriatic coast and the neighboring Dinaric mountains from Southwestern Slovenia through Croatia and Western Bosnia and Herzegovina to Northern Montenegro (Chobanov et al. 2016).

IUCN Red List status: Near Threatened (Europe and EU28) ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).