Distribution Matrix European Orthoptera

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Latest version published by Naturalis Biodiversity Center on Jun 4, 2026 Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Publication date:
June 4, 2026
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Description

A distribution matrix of Orthoptera was created for all 43 European countries except Russia, and with regional resolution in Spain, Italy, Greece, and France. All 1128 European Orthoptera species have been included, with their occurrences marked as present (1) or absent (0) in all regions.

Data Records

The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,128 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Taxon (core)
1128
Distribution 
10522

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 87dae1ed-ca96-461a-9550-3a06a010edb2.  Naturalis Biodiversity Center publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Checklist; Orthoptera; Grasshopper; Katydid; Cricket; Europe; Spain; Italy; Greece; France

Contacts

Milan van Hirtum
  • Originator
  • User
  • Point Of Contact
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Florent Prunier
  • Originator
AEA El Bosque Animado
Olga Fernández Hernández
  • Originator
AEA El Bosque Animado
Jeroen Creuwels
NLBIF
NL-2300 RA Leiden
Zuid-Holland
NL

Geographic Coverage

Europe

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Cigliano, M. M., Braun, H., Eades, D. C., & Otte, D. (2026). Orthoptera Species File. https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/
  2. Hochkirch, A., Nieto, A., García Criado, M., Cálix, M., Braud, Y., Buzzetti, F.M., Chobanov, D., Odé, B., Presa Asensio, J.J., Willemse, L., Zuna-Kratky, T., Barranco Vega, P., Bushell, M., Clemente, M.E., Correas, J.R., Dusoulier, F., Ferreira, S., Fontana, P., García, M.D., Heller, K-G., Iorgu I.Ș., Ivković, S., Kati, V., Kleukers, R., Krištín, A., Lemonnier-Darcemont, M., Lemos, P., Massa, B., Monnerat, C., Papapavlou, K.P., Prunier, F., Pushkar, T., Roesti, C., Rutschmann, F., Şirin, D., Skejo, J., Szövényi, G., Tzirkalli, E., Vedenina, V., Barat Domenech, J., Barros, F., Cordero Tapia, P.J., Defaut, B., Fartmann, T., Gomboc, S., Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, J., Holuša, J., Illich, I., Karjalainen, S., Kočárek, P., Korsunovskaya, O., Liana, A., López, H., Morin, D., Olmo-Vidal, J.M., Puskás, G., Savitsky, V., Stalling, T. and Tumbrinck, J. (2016). European Red List of Grasshoppers, Crickets and Bush-crickets. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2779/60944
  3. Fernández Hernández, O., & Prunier, F. (2025). Regional database of Spanish Orthoptera. AEA El Bosque Animado, Benarrabá.
  4. GBIF.org. (2025, December 11). GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.5fv22h
  5. Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F. M., Kleukers, R., & Odé, B. (2012). Orthoptera. Fauna d’Italia (Vol. 48, pp. 1–563).
  6. Odé, B., Marius, F., Ghani, B., Hochkirch, A., Planqué, R., Vellinga, W., & Kalkman, V. J. (2025). A list of sound-producing European grasshoppers and the availability of their sounds in Xeno-canto. Articulata, 95–130. https://doi.org/10.62323/a100191
  7. Sardet, E., Roesti, C., & Braud, Y. (2024). Cahier d’identification des orthoptères de France, Belgique, Luxembourg et Suisse: Toutes les espèces sauterelles, grillons & criquets.
  8. Willemse, L., Kleukers, R., & Odé, B. (2018). The grasshoppers of Greece.

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