Grants Supporting the Orthoptera Species File
By the end of 2021 the OSF grants committee received and evaluated 13 proposals by applicants from eight countries: Austria, Brazil, Croatia, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, and the U.S.A. The eight proposals listed below from four countries were funded and were selected based on the amount of data (images, specimen records, and sounds) expected to be added to the Orthoptera Species File. Also considered were the candidates’ expertise, if the proposal was related to a research project, and the adequacy of the budget.
Projects funded for 2022
Austria
1) Ivković Slobodan (Trier University, Germany) and Horvat Laslo (Austria)
Taxonomy, bioacoustics and distribution of Orthoptera in the Western Balkans (Montenegro and North Macedonia)
Brazil
2) Riuler Corrêa Acosta (Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul – Brazil)
Singers Orthopterans: bioacoustics of southern species Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
3) Gustavo Costa Tavares (Universidade Federal do Para, Brazil)
The Ensifera fauna awaiting indoors: a study on the Ensifera housed in the Laboratory of Invertebrates of Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Brazil
4) Phillip Engelking (Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, UNESP, Brazil)
Species of Tettigoniidae without photos in the Orthoptera Species File of two collections of USA
5) Marcos Fianco (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil)
The poorly illustrated Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) deposited in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NMW), Wien, Austria
6) Victor M. Ghirotto (Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo – São Paulo, Brazil)
Documenting the types of poorly known Ensifera: Orthoptera in European museums
India
7) Dhaneesh Bhaskar (Regional Vice-Chair for Asia IUCN SSC Grasshopper Specialist Group, India)
Orthoptera diversity, distribution and ecology in Nigriri Biosphere reserve, India and Field visit to Sri Lankan type localities covering the Orthoptera Types in the National Museum (CNMS) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Philippines
8) Jewel Anne G. Salvador (College of Biological Sciences Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines)
Delineating Species Boundaries of Ensifera (Orthoptera) in Agusan del Sur, Eastern Mindanao, Philippines through Bioacoustics and Morphological Analysis