http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359 On August 19 Dutch entomologist Jaap Bouwman discovered a small population of Eumodicogryllus bordigalensis along a railway track in Ede, in the central part of the Netherlands. This is the first record for this country. The species has a s... http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359&logId=l000052 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:42:55 +0200 Roy Kleukers On August 6, 2010 a group of Danish entomologists (Simon Waagner, Erik Dylmer, Kent Olsen and Lars Iversen) visited the island Bornholm in the south of Denmark. During their fieldwork they were suprised by a female of Phaneroptera falcata, ... http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359&logId=l000051 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:50:24 +0200 Roy kleukers The research group in ecology and evolution of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), aims at resolving the phylogeny of the Bradyporinae (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) based on molecular markers. This subfamily is well represented in Europ... http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359&logId=l000050 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:41:15 +0200 Nadir Alvarez In the period 1985-1995 a study was made of the Orthoptera of the Durmitor area in Montenegro. The region proved to be extremely rich with more than a 100 species of Orthoptera. In this first paper the astonishing number of seven new bush-c... http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359&logId=l000049 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:01:50 +0200 Roy Kleukers On July 18, 2010 a small population of Sphingonotus caerulans was discovered in the centre of Rotterdam, the first record for the Netherlands. The site, an abandoned railroad yard, was destroyed in the weeks after the discovery. Later the s... http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359&logId=l000048 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:36:29 +0200 Roy Kleukers Recently a critical checklist was published on the Orthoptera of Macedonia. The authors studied the collection of the natural history museum in Skopje, the literature and included some own records. The were able to add 8 taxa and remove 27 ... http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359&logId=l000047 Fri, 6 Aug 2010 06:10:53 +0200 Roy Kleukers One of the activities of the recently founded IUCN Grasshopper Specialist Group (GSG) is the redlisting of all European Orthoptera in the next few years. The European Redlisting of Orthoptera (ERO) is coordinated by Baudewijn Odé, Roy Kleuk... http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359&logId=l000046 Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:57:01 +0200 Baudewijn Odé On June 20, 2010 Christiane Amedegnato passed away after a short sickbed. She was a world specialist on southern American acridids, working at National Museum of Natural History in Paris (France).She has published many important works in th... http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359&logId=l000045 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:17:47 +0200 Paolo Fontana In a recent volume of Zootaxa two new species of Leptophyes from southern Italy have been described: L. calabra from Calabria and L. sicula from Sicily. Leptophyes calabra. Photo Roy Kleukers.Leptophyes sicula. Photo Paolo Fontana.The speci... http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359&logId=l000044 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:49:27 +0200 Roy Kleukers In the last 'Beiheft' of Articulata a key and overview to the Orthoptera fauna of the Pyrenean region is presented, based on a literature search and own field work of the authors. Metrioptera (Zeuneriana) abbreviata. Photo Miguel Angel Domi... http://www.ortheur.org/get?site=orthoptera&view=orthoptera&id=i000359&logId=l000043 Sat, 29 May 2010 19:15:02 +0200 Roy Kleukers