Critically Endangered
Emilia Mountain Grasshopper
Podisma emiliae
Emilia Mountain Grasshopper Ramme, 1926, is an orthoptera belonging to the Acrididae family, endemic to the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.
Appearance
It has an area of approximately 50 km², that goes from the south-east of Mount Cimone to the Corno alle Scale regional park, the typical locality is Val Gorgo.
Range and habitat
Emilia Mountain Grasshopper Ramme, 1926, is an orthoptera belonging to the Acrididae family, endemic to the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. Habitats Emilia Mountain Grasshopper is endemic to the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. It is found in meadows and pastures, from 1300 to 1700 m.
GBIF currently lists 26 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Life history
Song, season, and a named mountain are how many of these insects were split. A silent valley after fire is an empty record.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
The IUCN Red List classifies Emilia Mountain Grasshopper as a critically endangered species, as it is widespread in a very small area.
Emilia Mountain Grasshopper is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the Italian Wikipedia article on Podisma emiliae, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q10635028 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
