Barbarian grasshopper (Calliptamus barbarus)

Calliptamus barbarus
Other common names
Barbary grasshopper, Eurasian pincer grasshopper
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Calliptaminae
Genus:	Calliptamus
Scientific name
Calliptamus barbarus (Costa, 1836)
Geography
Native countries:
Bulgaria Cyprus Georgia (country) Italy Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Malta Morocco China Pakistan Russia Hungary Iran Israel Spain Switzerland Turkey France Greece Kazakhstan Algeria Armenia Portugal Ukraine United Kingdom Uzbekistan
Sound
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The Barbarian grasshopper (Calliptamus barbarus) is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae.

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
IUCN European Red List of Grasshoppers, Crickets and Bush-crickets		2016		View URL

Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species.

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Christopher Dietrich — 65 specimens collected
• Duarte Frade — 33 specimens collected
• Tiago Carrapiço — 33 specimens collected

• Luis Pascoal da Silva — 9 specimens collected
• Flávio Oliveira — 6 specimens collected
• Pedro Beja — 4 specimens collected
• Gilles San Martin — 4 specimens collected
• Octávio Mateus — 4 specimens collected
• Claude Kolwelter — 3 specimens collected
• Fabian A. Boetzl — 2 specimens collected
• Alfonso Garmendia — 2 specimens collected
• Emiliano Mori — 2 specimens collected
• Viacheslav Krylenko — 2 specimens collected
• Rafel Matamales Andreu — 2 specimens collected
• Miguel Guerreiro — 2 specimens collected
• Lars Willighagen — 2 specimens collected
• HADDAD Karim — 2 specimens collected
• Vyacheslav Yusupov — 2 specimens collected
• João Loureiro — 2 specimens collected
• Jakob Fahr — 2 specimens collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Duarte Frade — 19 specimens identified
• Tiago Carrapiço — 17 specimens identified
• Francesco Vitali — 9 specimens identified

• Christopher Dietrich — 9 specimens identified
• Luis Pascoal da Silva — 8 specimens identified
• Flávio Oliveira — 6 specimens identified
• Pedro Beja — 3 specimens identified
• Alfonso Garmendia — 2 specimens identified
• Rafel Matamales Andreu — 2 specimens identified
• Gilles San Martin — 2 specimens identified
• Lars Willighagen — 2 specimens identified
• Jakob Fahr — 2 specimens identified
• Sebastian Ćato — 1 specimen identified
• Emiliano Mori — 1 specimen identified
• Viacheslav Krylenko — 1 specimen identified
• Martiño Cabana Otero — 1 specimen identified
• Giselle Sterry — 1 specimen identified
• Dina Nesterkova — 1 specimen identified
• Darío Estraviz López — 1 specimen identified
• Kaarel Sammet — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

BOLD SystemsCalPhotosCatalogue of LifeEncyclopedia of LifeEPPOEUNISFauna EuropaeaFauna Europaea NewGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistInsects (Insecta) of the WorldIRMNGNCBI taxonomyOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)TAXREFUMLS CUIXeno-canto