The Orthoptera Species File grants committee received 18 applications from 13 countries (Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Spain, Tunisia, and the United States) from which the following proposals were funded (listed below). The proposals were selected based on the amount of data (images, specimen records, etc.) that is expected to be added to the Orthoptera Species File. Consideration of a candidate’s expertise was given in addition to the relationship of the proposal to the candidate’s taxonomic research project.
1) Nancy Collins (Wisconsin, USA): “Oecanthines of high interest in the United States”
2) Teixidor D. Hernández, H. López Hernández, & P. Oromí. (Department of Animal Biology, University of La Laguna, Spain): “Adding new data on Orthoptera from the Canary Islands to complete the existing data on Species File”
3) M. Husemann & Lara-Sophie Dey (Centrum für Naturkunde, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany): “Digitization and Imaging of Types of Oedipodinae described by Henri de Saussure (Collections in Vienna and Geneva)”
4) Abdelhamid Moussi & Haithem Tlili (University of Biskra, Algeria; University of Cartage, Tunisia): “Photographic database of North African Acridomorpha (Orthoptera, Caelifera) type specimens deposited at NHM London”
5) Slobodan Ivković & Horvat Laslo (Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Germany; Austria): “From lowland sands and steppes to alpine grasslands – Taxonomy, bioacoustics and distribution of Orthoptera in Serbia and Montenegro”
6) Pedro Guilherme Souza-Diaz (Museu Nacional – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): “The Orthoptera Collection at the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ). Reconstruction – stage 1: the Orthoptera from the city of Rio de Janeiro and the lost types from MNRJ”
7) Tan Ming Kai (Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore): “Contribution to the species diversity and acoustic data on Orthoptera from Sandakan (Borneo, East Malaysia, Sabah)”