Oropodisma lagrecai
Overview
A detailed profile for this species is sourced from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as assessments become available.
Oropodisma lagrecai faces severe threats from habitat destruction due to agricultural expansion and urban development in its limited mountain range. Climate change poses an additional critical threat, as rising temperatures force this cold-adapted grasshopper to retreat to increasingly smaller areas of suitable high-altitude habitat. The species' extremely restricted distribution makes it particularly vulnerable to any environmental changes or human disturbances within its narrow range.
Habitat
This critically endangered grasshopper inhabits high-altitude mountain grasslands and alpine meadows in the Italian Alps. It requires specific microhabitat conditions including native grass species and particular soil moisture levels found only in undisturbed montane ecosystems.
