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Species

Oropodisma parnassica (Scudder, 1897)

Parnassos Mountain Grasshopper
CollectionObject 1502039; 0cf8546a-e828-48b4-87f0-b74d30996d9e: female, lateral view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502039; 0cf8546a-e828-48b4-87f0-b74d30996d9e: female, lateral view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502039; 0cf8546a-e828-48b4-87f0-b74d30996d9e: female, dorsal view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502039; 0cf8546a-e828-48b4-87f0-b74d30996d9e: female, ventral view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502039; 0cf8546a-e828-48b4-87f0-b74d30996d9e: female, frontal view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502039; 0cf8546a-e828-48b4-87f0-b74d30996d9e: labels (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502040; 25ede047-fe8d-4878-8bcb-cb4fc091378b: male, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502040; 25ede047-fe8d-4878-8bcb-cb4fc091378b: male, dorsal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502040; 25ede047-fe8d-4878-8bcb-cb4fc091378b: male, ventral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502040; 25ede047-fe8d-4878-8bcb-cb4fc091378b: male, frontal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502040; 25ede047-fe8d-4878-8bcb-cb4fc091378b: labels (lectotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (12)

  • Podisma parnassica Scudder, 1897: 113.
  • Podisma parnassica Scudder, 1897 in Rehn & Hebard, 1912: 78.
  • Oropodisma parnassica (Scudder, 1897) in Stefanidis, Kougioumoutzis, Zografou, Fotiadis, Tzortzakaki, Willemse & Kati, 2024
  • Oropodisma parnassica (Scudder, 1897) in Trillo & Ortego, 2025: 196, 207, 208.

References (12)

  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) Revision of the Orthopteran group Melanopli (Acrididae) with special reference to North American forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 20(1124), 1–421. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/revisionoforthop00scudrich
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1912) Fixation of single type (lectotype) specimens of American Orthoptera. Section I. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64(1), 60–128. Available at http://archive.org/details/proceedingsofaca64acad/page/60/mode/2up
  • Dovnar-Zapolskij, D.P. (1932) Zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Podismini (Orthoptera, Acridodea) (Vorläufige Mitteilung). Trudy Zoologitscheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Leningrad [= Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad], 1(3-4), 253–268. [in Russian]
  • 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.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1972) Further records of the genus Oropodisma Uvarov, 1942 (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Catantopinae). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 22, 27–31.
  • Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1984) Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Greece. Fauna Graeciae I., 1–275.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. & Willemse, L. (2008) An annotated checklist of the Orthoptera-Saltatoria from Greece including an updated bibliography. Articulata Beiheft, 13.
  • Willemse, L., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2018) The Grasshoppers of Greece. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 440 pp.
  • Stefanidis, A., Kougioumoutzis, K., Zografou, K., Fotiadis, G., Tzortzakaki, O., Willemse, L. & Kati, V. (2024) Mitigating the extinction risk of globally threatened and endemic mountainous Orthoptera species: Parnassiana parnassica and Oropodisma parnassica. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12784
  • 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 on Mount Parnassus.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1023