Chorthippus oschei Helversen, 1986

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 : 54-55

33. Chorthippus oschei Helversen, 1986

33.1. Chorthippus oschei pusztaensis Vedenina & Helversen, 2009 = panonski livadni skakavac

First faunistic record for Croatia: Vedenina & Helversen 2009 [possibly Krauss 1879 as Stenobothrus elegans Charpentier ]

Also reported as: Stenobothrus elegans ( Charpentier, 1825) ( Krauss 1879) , Chorthippus albomarginatus (De Geer, 1773) ( Padewieth 1900)

Distribution in Croatia: Subspecies C. o. pusztaensis Vedenina & Helversen, 2009 is present in the whole country, except on the Adriatic Islands, in Dalmatia and Dubrovnik area. Common in the Pannonian region and the Dinaric Alps.

Distribution in Europe: Species endemic to the Balkans and surroundings, from Eastern Austria and Slovakia to Northern Greece (southern distribution border) and Ukraine (southern border). On northern range border, the species can hybridize with C. albomarginatus , which occurs from Spain and the United Kingdom to Finland, Eastern European Russia and Northern Romania. C. oschei is divided into two subspecies—nominal restricted to Greece, and C. o. pusztaensis (after Puszta, Hungarian word for waste plain steppic grassland), inhabiting other parts of the species' distribution—in and around the Pannonian Basin ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).