Grants Supporting the Orthoptera Species File
For 2023 Orthoptera Species File Grants, we received and evaluated 22 proposals by applicants from 15 countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Cyprus, Germany, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Portugal, Singapore, The Netherlands, and the United States of America. Twelve proposals (listed below) were selected by the OSF Grants Committee for the total amount of $47,000 USD. The proposals were selected based on the amount of data (images, specimen records, and sounds) expected to be added to the Orthoptera Species File. Also considered was the candidates’ expertise on the studied group, the quality of the proposal and its relation to a taxonomic research project, if the project is related to a region of the world where Orthoptera are understudied, as well as if the project has an adequate budget. As an exception, one project related to the Cockroach Species File has been included.
Projects Funded for 2023
Austria
1) Slobodan Ivković (Trier University, Germany) & Laslo Hovart (Austria)
Taxonomy, bioacoustics and distribution of Orthoptera in the Western Balkans (North Macedonia II)
Brazil
2) Lucas Denadai de Campos (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil).
Photographic database of Gryllinae and Oecanthinae crickets (Ensifera, Grylloidea) type specimens deposited in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP)
3) Neucir Szinwelski (State University of Western Paraná, Brazil).
The Orthoptera from Paraná: Reducing Orthoptera biodiversity gaps in a threatened Atlantic Forest hotspot, and adding in OSF data from one of the most diverse state in Brazil
Cameroon
4) Charly Oumarou-Ngoute (Faculty of Sciences, University of Douala, Cameroon)
The grasshopper (Orthoptera, Caelifera) diversity of Mount Bamboutos in the Cameroon Volcanic Line
Colombia
5) Oscar Cadena (Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia)
Study of Melanoplinae (Acrididae), Mecopodinae and Hexacentrinae (Tettigoniidae) of high Andean forests and paramos of the eastern mountain range of Colombia – Extension of the project to areas not covered, mainly in the south of the eastern range, and the central range of the Colombian Andes
India
6) Ranjana Jaiswara (Panjab University, India)
Photography of male and female genitalia of Gryllinae (Orthoptera,Grylloidea) type specimens at NHM, London
Malaysia
7) Amira Muhammad Aqilah (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Digitalization of Orthoptera Types from museum collections in Malaysia.
Nepal
8) Madan Subedi (Agriculture and Forestry University, Ghyalchok, Gorkha, Nepal) Photographic records of the groundhoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) of the unexplored wetlands of Ramaroshan, Accham, Nepal
Pakistan
9) Sundus Zahid (Mansehra. KPK, Pakistan)
Digitization of (Pakistani and Sri Lankan) type Specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum (NHM), London
Singapore
10) Ming Kai Tan (National University of Singapore)
Bridging the Sampling Gaps for Orthopterans in Southeast Asia: From Malay Peninsula to Borneo
USA
11) Heidi Hopkins (Ithaca College, New York, USA)
Photographing primary Blattodea types held in Australian museums and searching for an elusive Australian desert cockroach
12) Ricardo Mariño Pérez (Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, USA)
Caelifera type collection of Bernice P. Bishop Museum (BPBM) in Orthoptera Species File