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Oropodisma karavica La Greca & Messina, 1977

Karavica Mountain Grasshopper
CollectionObject 1598751; 1cc8429d-e08e-4663-8dd5-f779cd77a6a2: female. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1598751; 1cc8429d-e08e-4663-8dd5-f779cd77a6a2: female. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1598751; 1cc8429d-e08e-4663-8dd5-f779cd77a6a2: female. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1598751; 1cc8429d-e08e-4663-8dd5-f779cd77a6a2: male. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (6)

  • Oropodisma karavica La Greca & Messina, 1977: 1-6.

    Syntype; cdc1341c-f2a9-4fad-aa74-a6296ded908d; Greece: Thessaly and Central Greece: Mount Karava

  • Oropodisma karavica La Greca & Messina, 1977 in Willemse, 1984: 107.
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  • Oropodisma karavica La Greca & Messina, 1977 in Willemse, Kleukers & Odé, 2018: 304.
  • Oropodisma karavica La Greca & Messina, 1977 in Trillo & Ortego, 2025: 199, 207, 208.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Kenyeres, Z., Rácz, I.A. & Varga, Z. (2009) Endemism hot spots, core areas and disjunctions in European Orthoptera. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 52(1-2), 189–211. Available at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/isez/azcb/2009/00000052/f0020001/art00016?crawler=true
  • La Greca, M. & Messina, A. (1977) Due nuove specie di Oropodisma (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) di Grecia. Animalia (Catania), 3(1-3), 5–16. [1976]
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  • 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
  • Willemse, F.M.H. & Willemse, L. (2008) An annotated checklist of the Orthoptera-Saltatoria from Greece including an updated bibliography. Articulata Beiheft, 13.
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After type locality Mount Karava.

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