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Species

Oropodisma chelmosi Uvarov, 1942

Chelmos Mountain Grasshopper
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Nomenclature (7)

  • Oropodisma chelmosi Uvarov, 1942: 353.

    Holotype; male; 3103eab1-735c-490b-bb01-c61aea1ea4db; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Greece: Peloponnese, Western Greece and: Peloponnesus, Mt. Chelmos, above Kalavryta

  • Oropodisma chelmosi Uvarov, 1942 in Willemse, 1971: 22.
  • Oropodisma chelmosi Uvarov, 1942 in Willemse, Kleukers & Odé, 2018: 304.
  • Oropodisma chelmosi Uvarov, 1942 in Trillo & Ortego, 2025: 196, 206, 208.

References (7)

  • Uvarov, B.P. (1942) New and less known southern Palaearctic Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 67(4), 303–361. [1941] Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4277_003#page/63/mode/1up
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1971) The genus Oropodisma Uvarov, 1942, with the description of two new species (Orthoptera, Acridiidae, Catantopinae). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 20, 19–25.
  • Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1979) A new species and new distributional data of Oropodisma Uvarov, 1942 from Greece (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Entomologische Berichten, 39(7), 108–111. Available at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1013122
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1984) Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Greece. Fauna Graeciae I., 1–275.
  • Willemse, L., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2018) The Grasshoppers of Greece. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 440 pp.
  • Trillo, M. & Ortego, J. (2025) Geometric morphometric characterization of the Balkan alpine grasshopper genus Oropodisma Uvarov, 1942 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Melanoplinae), with description of two new species. ZooKeys, 1240, 195–217. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1240.150223

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After type locality Mount Chelmos.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1001