The Orthoptera Species File grants committee received and evaluated 14 proposals by applicants from 14 countries for 2020: Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Tunisia, and the USA. Of these, the 10 proposals listed below will be funded. They have been selected based on the amount of data (images, specimen records, sounds, etc.) expected to be added to the Orthoptera Species File. Also considered were the candidates’ expertise, if the proposal was related to a taxonomic research project, and the budget. Click here to see other Polyneoptera Grants & Award opportunities.
1) Moussi Abdelhamid, Haithem Tlili (University of Biskra, Algeria; University of Carthage, Tunisia)
Title: Photographic database of Western Asia Acridomorpha (Orthoptera, Caelifera) type specimens deposited at NHM London
2) Martina E. Pocco (Museo de La Plata, CCT La Plata CONICET-CEPAVE, Argentina)
Title: Extension of the project “Illustrating Neotropical Acridoidea species with emphasis on Romaleinae in OSF”
3) Slobodan Ivković & Horvat Laslo (Trier University, Germany; Elsbethen, Austria)
Title: From lowland steppes to alpine grasslands II – Taxonomy, bioacoustics and distribution of Orthoptera in Serbia and Montenegro
4) Marcos Fianco (State University of Western Parana, Brazil)
Title: The Ensifera fauna from Guartela State Park, Parana State, Brazil.
5) Dragan Chobanov, Ionuț Iorgu, Simeon Borisov, Georgi Hristov (Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Title: Orthoptera of the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian Basin II: a database of digital data in the Orthoptera Species File
6) Karmela Adžić, Maks Deranja, Amira Aqilah Muhammad (Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Title: Grasshoppers and Crickets of the Adriatic Islands
7) Marie-Pierre Chapius & A. Coeur d’Acier (CIRAD, INRA, CBGP, Montpellier, France)
Title: Providing OSF with range maps, images of diagnostic characters and song records for the two cryptic species discovered within Calliptamus barbarus (Costa, 1836)
8) Chandranshu Tiwari (University of Delhi, India)
Title: Katydids of India: Documenting the acoustic diversity of katydids from North-East India.
9) Baudewijn Odé, Roy Kleukers and Luc Willemse (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands)
Title: Grasshopper sounds on Xeno-canto
10) Brandon Woo (Cornell University, USA)
Title: Katydid biodiversity and bioacoustics on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica