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8 BULLETIN OF THE LITHUANIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Volume 3 (31)
FIRST RECORDS OF AIOLOPUS THALASSINUS (FABRICIUS, 1781)
AND EUTHYSTIRA BRACHYPTERA (OCSKAY, 1826) (ORTHOPTERA:
ACRIDIDAE) IN LITHUANIA
EDUARDAS BUDRYS1, KAZIMIERAS MARTINAITIS2, KRISTINA VALINČIENĖ2,
ROMAS FERENCA2
1Nature Research Centre, Akademijos 2, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania.
2Kaunas T. Ivanauskas Museum of Zoology, Laisvės al. 106, LT-44253 Kaunas, Lithuania.
E-mail: eduardas.budrys@gamtc.lt.
Introduction
The check-list of Orthoptera of Lithuanian fauna currently includes 46 species
(Budrys et al., 2015 and references there; Ferenca et al., 2017). The aim of this study is
presentation of records of two other species. One of them, Euthystira brachyptera
(Ocskay, 1826), was earlier published in the Fauna Europaea database (Heller, 2013),
though occurrence of this species in Lithuania was not confirmed by verifiable data.
Material and Methods
The insects were observed, and their pictures were taken by Kazimieras Martinaitis
(K. M.) and Kristina Valinčienė (K. V.).
List of localities
Administrative district Localit
y
Coordinates (LAT, LONG)
Kalgraužiai, Palanga t., 56.0319, 21.1173;
Nida env., Neringa t., 55.2969, 20.9974.
List of species
Aiolopus thalassinus (Fabricius, 1781)
Nida env., 21 08 2019, 1♀ (K. V.: Fig. 1).
Euthystira brachyptera (Ocskay, 1826)
Kalgraužiai, 08 08 2018, 1♀ (K. M.: Fig. 2).
Discussion
Aiolopus thalassinus (Acrididae: Oedipodinae) is a widespread Old World species:
the distribution area covers most of Palaearctic (except the northern parts of it),
Palaeotropical and Australasian regions. The nearest to Lithuania known occurrence sites
are in Poland (Bazyluk & Liana, 2000; Mielczarek & Grobelny, 2018) and Belarus
(Prischepchik & Storozhenko, 2019), they all are south of the 53rd parallel. The species
is not recorded in Latvia, Estonia and Fennoscandia. A. thalassinus may be another
example of a species that is spreading to the north due to climate warming.
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Fig. 1. Aiolopus thalassinus (Nida env.; photo Kristina Valinčienė).
Fig. 2. Euthystira brachyptera (Kalgraužiai; photo Kazimieras Martinaitis).
Euthystira brachyptera (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae) is a transpalearctic species,
widespread from Spain to the Far East of Russia. It inhabits wide range of open habitats
from dry calcareous meadows to wet fens and woodland clearings (Wagner, 2019).
Presence of this grasshopper in Lithuania was expected, though not confirmed by
verifiable data. Lack of the data is partly explained by relatively low research efforts,
however, it is obvious that the species is much scarcer than many other local
grasshoppers. Distribution, abundance and habitat preferences of E. brachyptera in
Lithuania need further exploration.
The check-list of Orthoptera of the Lithuanian fauna with 48 species is expectedly
close to its completeness. Among the orthopterans, which are not yet recorded, however,
which finding in Lithuania is probable, we may mention a widespread species
Gomphocerippus rufus (Linnaeus, 1758), southern species Stenobothrus nigromaculatus
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(Herrich-Schäffer, 1840), Stauroderus scalaris (Fischer de Waldheim, 1846) and
Chorthippus vagans (Eversmann, 1848), and a synanthropic species Tachycines
asynamorus Adelung, 1902.
Acknowledgements
A part of the research was carried out using the Open Access to research
infrastructure of the Nature Research Centre under Lithuanian open access network
initiative.
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Pirmieji skėriukų Aiolopus thalassinus (Fabricius, 1781) ir Euthystira brachyptera
(Ocskay, 1826) stebėjimai Lietuvoje
E. BUDRYS, K. MARTINAITIS, K. VALINČIENĖ, R. FERENCA
Santrauka
Straipsnyje pateikiami duomenys apie pirmuosius pakrantinio skėriuko (Aiolopus
thalassinus (Fabricius, 1781)) ir trumpasparnio skėriuko (Euthystira brachyptera
(Ocskay, 1826)) stebėjimus Lietuvos teritorijoje: vietovės, datos, individų skaičius ir
nuotraukos. Pakrantinis skėriukas yra pietinė rūšis, galimai plintanti į šiaurę dėl klimato
šiltėjimo, kurios arealas jau pasiekė Lietuvą. Trumpasparnis skėriukas yra plačiai
paplitusi rūšis, kurios buvimas Lietuvoje buvo tikėtinas.
Received: 21 November, 2019
