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Oedipoda caerulescens, known as the blue-winged grasshopper, is a species found across Europe and parts of Central Asia. It is notable for the bright blue hindwings revealed in flight, which contrast with its cryptic forewing coloration. The species inhabits dry, stony, and sun-exposed grasslands, a...

Oedipoda germanica, commonly called the red-winged grasshopper, is an insect native to the dry grasslands and rocky steppes of Europe. The species is distinguished by the bright red or pinkish hue of its hind wings, which contrast sharply with its otherwise camouflaged grey or brown forewings. When...

Tetrix tenuicornis, commonly called the long-horned groundhopper, is a grasshopper in the family Tetrigidae. Sahlberg described the species in 1891, and it is included among the European species of Tetrix. Records associate it with sparsely vegetated, earthy or sandy ground rather than dense grass,...

Chorthippus apricarius is a grasshopper in the subfamily Gomphocerinae, distributed across much of Europe and temperate Asia. It is associated with dry grassland and other open habitats. Males produce a species-specific stridulation song by rubbing parts of the body together, and this acoustic signa...

Aiolopus strepens is a grasshopper in the family Acrididae and subfamily Oedipodinae. It is distributed across parts of Europe and the Middle East and is associated with warm, open habitats, including bare or sparsely vegetated sandy and gravelly ground. Such surfaces provide the open basking, feedi...

First described by Chinese entomologist Youqiao Zheng in 1965, Euchorthippus elegantulus is a temperate grasshopper native to the grassy plains of East Asia.

Stenobothrus fischeri is a grasshopper species in the family Acrididae and the subfamily Gomphocerinae. It was described by Eversmann in 1848 and belongs to a Eurasian group of short-horned grasshoppers associated with open habitats. The species is linked with dry grassland environments, where membe...

Euchorthippus declivus is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae and subfamily Gomphocerinae. It occurs in parts of Europe and is associated with open, relatively dry grassland habitats. The species was formally described in 1849 by the French entomologist Charles Nicolas François Brisout...

Xerolenta obvia, the latticed heath snail, is a terrestrial gastropod in the family Hygromiidae. It is native to parts of southeastern and central Europe and is associated with dry, open habitats such as grassland, heath, dunes, sand hills, and rocky slopes; populations have also been introduced out...