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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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

Natural history collections are built by people. The specimens that document this species were collected in the field, preserved in collections, and identified by generations of researchers and naturalists. Bionomia helps make these often-overlooked contributions visible by linking specimen records to the people behind them.

The contributors shown here are drawn from specimen records made available through GBIF and attributed to individuals by Bionomia. Each list shows up to the 20 people with the most specimens for this species, ranked from most to fewest.

Collected by

These people collected specimens of this species in the field, helping build the physical record of where and when it has occurred.

• 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

Identified by

These people examined specimens and determined their taxonomic identity—an essential step in turning a collected specimen into a useful biodiversity record.

• 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