Appearance
The adult males grow up to 15–22 millimetres long, while the females reach 22–32 millimetres of length. They can be encountered from early June through October in warm and dry stony or rocky habitats. They are almost exclusively phytophagous, mainly feeding in grass of mountain pastures and various herbaceous plants .The body is quite large and rounded. The basic coloration is brown-grayish, with transversal darker areas. The pronotum is equipped with a median carina of pronotum not much raised. The compound eyes are large. The delicate front wings are straight and narrow, their colour is beige with darker bands. The hind wings are red with a black band on margin and are fit for flight.
Femora of the hind legs are red on the bottom, while tibiae are yellowish in the females and black in males.
Naming
* ''Oedipoda germanica'' var. ''germanica''⤷ ''Oedipoda germanica'' var. ''kraussi'' Ramme, 1913
⤷ ''Oedipoda germanica'' var. ''meridionalis'' Ramme, 1913
⤷ ''Oedipoda germanica'' var. ''aurea'' Uvarov, 1923
Distribution
This grasshopper is present in Austria, Belgium, Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and in the Near East.Reproduction
The eggs - laid in clusters below the surface of the soil - hatch in next Spring.References:
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