Critically Endangered
Sibillini Mountain Grasshopper
Podisma silvestrii
The Sibillini Mountains grasshopper (Sibillini Mountain Grasshopper Salfi, 1935) is a grasshopper belonging to the Acrididae family.
The grasshopper
Short-horned grasshoppers are day-active jumpers of grass and bare ground. Hearing organs sit on the abdomen.
Grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets hear and sing. A species may be diagnosed by the song or by a mountain valley.
Range and habitat
The Sibillini Mountains grasshopper (Sibillini Mountain Grasshopper Salfi, 1935) is a grasshopper belonging to the Acrididae family. Habitats As the name suggests, this species is widespread exclusively in the Sibillini Mountains region, between the Marche and Umbria.
GBIF currently lists 12 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 Sibillini Mountain Grasshopper as a critically endangered species.
Sibillini 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 silvestrii, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q14131902 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.
