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Podismopsis keisti (Nadig, 1989)

Schweizer Goldschrecke; Keist's Plump Grasshopper

Nomenclature (10)

  • Chrysochraon (Podismopsis) keisti Nadig, 1989: 80.

    Holotype; male; 1b7a3b0a-fb14-4eeb-8f7d-f9fd2c762222; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Switzerland: Sankt Gallen: Churfirsten, Gamserrugg

  • Chrysochraon keisti Nadig, 1989 in Bellmann & Luquet, 1995: 280.
  • Podismopsis keisti (Nadig, 1989) in Bellmann, Rutschmann, Roesti & Hochkirch, 2019: 362.
  • Podismopsis keisti (Nadig, 1989) in Kočárek, Marhoul, Vlk & Holuša, 2026

References (10)

  • Nadig, A. (1989) Eine aus den Alpen bisher unbekannte Untergattung in der Schweiz: Chrysochraon (Podismopsis) keisti sp. n. (Saltatoria: Acridinae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 62(1-2), 79–86. Available at http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=seg-001%3A1989%3A62#89
  • Bellmann, H. & Luquet, G.C. (1995) Guide des sauterelles, grillons et criquets d'Europe occidentale. Delachaux et Niestle, Lausanne, 1–383 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 5, Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 630 pp.
  • Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Cogo, A. & Odé, B. (2002) Guida al riconoscimento e allo studio di cavallette, grilli, mantidi e insetti affini del Veneto: Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Dermaptera, Embidiina. Museo Naturalistico Archaeologico di Vicenza, Vicenza, 1–592 pp.
  • Coray, A. (2004) Kommentierte Liste der von Adolf Nadig beschriebenen nominellen Orthopterentaxa. Articulata, 19(1), 105–112. Available at http://dgfo-articulata.de/downloads/articulata/articulata_XIX_2004/coray_2004.pdf
  • Koschuh, A. (2008) Podismopsis styriaca nov. sp. (Orthoptera, Acridinae) ein Endemit im Ostalpenraum. Linzer Biologische Beiträge, 40(1), 627–638. Available at http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/LBB_0040_1_0627-0638.pdf
  • Roesti, C. & Keist, B. (2009) Die Stimmen der Heuschrecken. Haupt Verlag, 144 pp. + DVD.
  • Hollier, J.A. (2014) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Adolf Nadig with an account of the type material housed in the Museum d'histoire naturelle de Geneve. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 121(3), 401–414. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/221125#page/115/mode/1up
  • Bellmann, H., Rutschmann, F., Roesti, C. & Hochkirch, A. (2019) Der Kosmos Heuschreckenführer. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart, 432 pp.
  • Kočárek, P., Marhoul, P., Vlk, R. & Holuša, J. (2026) A new species of alpine grasshopper of the genus Podismopsis Zubovski, 1900 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae) from Central Europe. ZooKeys, 1295, 303–331. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1295.205424

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after the Swiss physician and ornithologist Bruno Keist (1940–2025) who discovered the species.

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