Euchorthippus pulvinatus (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)

Habitat:
Euchorthippus pulvinatus inhabits often sandy, but also stony, xerothermous grasslands. It is important that spots with higher grasses and those with scarce vegetation or bare ground are both available.

Endangerment factors:
Euchorthippus pulvinatus is dependent on xerothermous grasslands in good condition. Those habitats can be maintained usually only by extensive grazing (at least outside extreme sandy steppe areas). Euchorthippus pulvinatus is easily pushed back by abandonment, fertilization, transfer into arable land or overbuilding.

Remarks:
Euchorthippus pulvinatus occurs in E- and SE-Europe and parts of temperate Asia (to Central Asia). In Europe it is found westwards to E-Austria where it is very scarce and mostly already extinct today. It is much more common in parts of Hungary. Euchorthippus pulvinatus is found southeastward to N-Greece.

The SW-European taxon elegantuls is nowadays often regarded as species of its own, but used to be considered a subspecies.