Endemism hot spots, core areas and disjunctions in European Orthoptera

• DOI: 10.3409/azc.52b_1-2.189-211
• Publication Date: 2009-07-14T01:58:29Z
• Authors: Zoltán Kenyeres; István A. Rácz; Zoltán Varga
• Keywords: Endemism; Peninsula

The paper overviews the endemism hot-spots of European Orthoptera and reveals paleogeographic processes which have shaped recent faunal structures fauna. Descriptions seven centres (the southern Balkan Peninsula western Asia Minor; Dinaric Mountains; Alps; Ap- penines; Carpathian Mountains Basin; Iberian Peninsula; Caucasian Mountains) are given. Significance these areas is not only mirrored in richness endemic species but also postglacial expansion aims study were to summarize literature data hypotheses topic, discuss formation evolution cen- tres Orthoptera.