Podisma pedestris is a species of 'short-horned grasshoppers' belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Melanoplinae.

This small wingless grasshopper is present in most of Europe and in eastern Palearctic realm through to temperate, mainland east Asia.

They can be encountered from mid June through October in dry meadows, in rocky slopes of mountains, alpine pastures and forest clearings.

The basic coloration of the body varies from dark-brownish to yellowish, with black and yellow trasversal stripes on the sides of the abdomen.

In both sexes the vestigial wings are oval, very short and unfit to flight (brachyptery), resembling those of a nymph.