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'Overview of Croatian grasshoppers' (Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera) fauna

Short overview of poor history of Orthoptera research in Croatia, as well as insight into grasshoppers' diversity in the country is presented. Last systematic work published on Orthoptera is Us (1967) listed 164 Orthopteran species for Croatia. We made systematic review of grasshoppers occurring in Croatia and omitted about 20 species from Us' catalogue, while added more than 40 species that were reported after Us (in literature or by authors of this study). The overview presents richness per every region (Pannonian, Dinaric and Adriatic) of Croatia. Besides new records for country, a lot of taxonomic issues were solved in last 4-years-research by morphology, bioacoustics and genetic studies. Mentioned are some of the most interesting - (I) Odontopodisma revision with new data on identity of O. rammei Harz, and with two potentially new species from the genus, (II) Poecilimon elegans group revision with discovery of two new cryptic species, (III) Chorthippus biguttulus group preliminary revision with new data on distribution of Ch. eisentrauti, Ch. mollis lesinensis and Ch. biguttulus cf. Durmitor form. Systematic work on Orthoptera of Croatia continues with new projects and new problems, and we want to give emphasis on rich karst (Dinaric) area of Croatia which hides a lot of new and interesting, especially endangered and localized, taxa that are waiting to be discovered/protected.

diversity ; geographic regions ; taxonomic issues ; revision ; Dinaric karst

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