Myrmeleotettix maculatus

{{short description|Species of grasshopper}}

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| genus = Myrmeleotettix

| species = maculatus

| authority = (Thunberg, 1815) Thunberg, C.P. 1815. Hemipterorum maxillosorum genera illustrata plurimisque novis speciebus ditata ac descripta. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 5: 211-302

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Myrmeleotettix maculatus is a species belonging to the subfamily Gomphocerinae and may be called the mottled grasshopper.{{cite book|title= Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles |author= Ragge DR|year= 1965| publisher = F Warne & Co, London|pages = 299}} It is found across the Palearctic east to Siberia. In the north, it is spread from the British Isles to Scandinavia and Russia, north to about the Arctic Circle, in the south to Morocco, over the south of Spain, Calabria and Greece to Turkey . They are found from sea level to about 2,500 meters above sea level, for example in the French Alps and the Balkans.Fauna EuropaeaHeiko Bellmann: Der Kosmos Heuschreckenführer. Die Arten Mitteleuropas sicher bestimmen. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, {{ISBN|3-440-10447-8}}

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