ZooKeys 936: 25–60 (2020) A peer-reviewed open-access journal doi: 10.3897/zookeys.936.51599 RESEARCH ARTICLE https://zookeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Island mysteries in the spotlight: Barbitistes kaltenbachi and Rhacocleis buchichii, the only bush-cricket species endemic to Croatia (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) Rob Felix1,2,*, Klaus-Gerhard Heller1,3,*, Baudewijn Odé1,7, Fran Rebrina1,4, Josip Skejo1,5,6 1 IUCN/SSC Grasshopper Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland 2 Nijmegen, the Netherlands 3 Grillenstieg 18, D-39120 Magdeburg, Germany 4 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Zoology, Animal Ecology and Zoogeography Lab,Rooseveltov trg 6, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia 5 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Zoology, Evolution Lab,Rooseveltov trg 6, HR- 10000 Zagreb, Croatia 6 Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institute of Molecular Evolution, D-40225, Düsseldorf, Germany 7 De Bongerd 29, 6584 DG Molenhoek, the Netherlands Corresponding author: Rob Felix (
[email protected]) Academic editor: Tony Robillard | Received 3 March 2020 | Accepted 31 March 2020 | Published 28 May 2020 http://zoobank.org/668E08BD-6383-403F-B29C-F47CA7C50E80 Citation: Felix R, Heller KG, Odé B, Rebrina F, Skejo J (2020) Island mysteries in the spotlight: Barbitistes kaltenbachi and Rhacocleis buchichii, the only bush-cricket species endemic to Croatia (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). ZooKeys 936: 25–60. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.936.51599 Abstract Hvar Saw Bush-cricket Barbitistes kaltenbachi Harz, 1965 (Phaneropterinae: Barbitistini) and Lesina Bush-cricket Rhacocleis buchichii Brunner von Wattenwyl in Herman 1874 (Tettigoniinae: Platycleidini) are flightless orthopterans restricted to a narrow area in the Mediterranean part of Croatia, both originally described from Hvar Island.