Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Italian Sand Grasshopper (Sphingonotus personatus), recorded as Endangered
Italian Sand Grasshopper (Sphingonotus personatus). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Italian Sand Grasshopper

Sphingonotus personatus

Italian Sand Grasshopper is a grasshopper in the family Acrididae (order Orthoptera) — Sphingonotus personatus, recorded as Endangered and tied to Italy, Greece, and Spain.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Sphingonotus personatus
Recorded from
Italy, Greece, Spain
Taxonomy
Insecta · Orthoptera · Acrididae · Sphingonotus

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

Italian Sand Grasshopper is recorded from Italy, Greece, and Spain.

GBIF currently lists 74 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

Italian Sand Grasshopper is 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 Wikidata item Q10675488 and GBIF occurrence geography. No dedicated encyclopedia article was available at build time. Family and order context is original writing about the group — not a claim that a monograph exists for this name. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Italian Sand Grasshopper?
Italian Sand Grasshopper is a grasshopper in the family Acrididae (order Orthoptera) — Sphingonotus personatus.
What is the conservation status of Italian Sand Grasshopper?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Sphingonotus personatus. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Italian Sand Grasshopper live?
The public record places it in Italy, Greece, and Spain.
Why is Italian Sand Grasshopper in crisis?
It is Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Sphingonotus personatus?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Italian Sand Grasshopper a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.