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DOI	10.3390/insects15020082
	An Overview of Orthoptera Mass Occurrences in Croatia from 1900 to 2023
	Kasalo, Niko; Tvrtkovic, Nikola; Bogic, Domagoj; Kokan, Boze; Vukovic, Marijana; Kucinic, Mladen; Skejo, Josip
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2075-4450
起始页码	15
结束页码	2
卷号	15 期号:2
英文摘要	Simple Summary Grasshopper and cricket (Orthoptera) mass occurrences represent an unusually large increase in populations of certain species. Grasshopper species known as locusts are well known to cause severe damage to many crops. The severity of each outbreak depends on the species and on a wide range of ecological factors, including temperature and rainfall regime. In Croatia, a small country in SE Europe, there has never been systematic research on these Orthoptera species, and this phenomenon is regarded as a rare event despite several huge outbreaks being reported in the past. For the first time, all known mass occurrences of grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, bush-crickets, and mole crickets (of the order Orthoptera) from Croatia are summarized. The study represents a historical overview of all Orthoptera mass occurrences known based on the literature but also provides many new records. It seems that Orthoptera mass occurrences are not rare in the country at all, especially in the Mediterranean part. The present situation suggests that thorough research into locusts as agricultural pests in Croatia should be conducted to determine the potential threat to the local economy and with special emphasis on the Adriatic region. The trends of climate change in the Mediterranean imply a rise in locust destructiveness risk in the near future and invites further research.Abstract During the last century, well-known locust species, such as Calliptamus italicus and Dociostaurus maroccanus, have produced outbreaks of varying degrees in the Balkans. The literature data on outbreaks in the region are scarce, and Croatia is not an exception. This study summarized the data on 23 Orthoptera mass occurrences in Croatia from 1900 to 2023 from 28 localities, representing 12 species. This is a low level of outbreak activity compared with other locust and pest grasshopper species in other parts of the world. The species with the most reporting is C. italicus with altogether six mass occurrences, while second is Barbitistes ocskayi and Miramella irena with three records, and in the third, place D. maroccanus and Gryllotalpa sp., each with two mass occurrences having been reported. One of the most notable swarms is that of Anacridium aegyptium which occurred around Sibenik in 1998, and this paper provides the first account of it, 25 years after it took place. The most recent outbreaks took place in 2022, and the most notable one was that of D. maroccanus swarm in Stikovo. The 2022 and 2023 reports were brief and muted, despite the affected agriculturists claiming significant damages.
英文关键词	Mediterranean region; locusts; grasshoppers; katydids; mole crickets; pest species; abundance; outbreaks (hrv. najezda)
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Entomology
WOS类目	Entomology
WOS记录号	WOS:001170957100001
来源期刊	INSECTS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/306420
作者单位	University of Zagreb
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kasalo, Niko,Tvrtkovic, Nikola,Bogic, Domagoj,et al. An Overview of Orthoptera Mass Occurrences in Croatia from 1900 to 2023[J],2024,15(2).
APA	Kasalo, Niko.,Tvrtkovic, Nikola.,Bogic, Domagoj.,Kokan, Boze.,Vukovic, Marijana.,...&Skejo, Josip.(2024).An Overview of Orthoptera Mass Occurrences in Croatia from 1900 to 2023.INSECTS,15(2).
MLA	Kasalo, Niko,et al."An Overview of Orthoptera Mass Occurrences in Croatia from 1900 to 2023".INSECTS 15.2(2024).