Critically Endangered
Crau Stone Grasshopper
Prionotropis rhodanica
Crau Stone Grasshopper is a grasshopper or katydid in the family Pamphagidae (order Orthoptera) — Prionotropis rhodanica, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to France.
Appearance
The Crau Grasshopper has cryptic colors, similar to its substrate and tends to freeze when approaching danger, unlike other species that often prefer to flee.
It is one of the largest locusts in France, measuring between 30 and 45 mm.
Range and habitat
Crau Stone Grasshopper is recorded from France.
GBIF currently lists 230 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.
Habits
The male being smaller and less stocky than the female, he climbs on her back for mating.
In crisis
Crau Stone 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 French Wikipedia article on Prionotropis rhodanica, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q10638886 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.
