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IUCN Red Listing Workshop for Orthoptera assessments in Leiden (2013)

First IUCN Red Listing workshop of the IUCN/SSC Grasshopper Specialist Group

A group of 12 European experts on grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets has attended a workshop in Leiden (Netherlands) to get experience in using the IUCN Red List categories and criteria. …  

14 Apr 2013 | Article

Tenerife Sand Grasshopper - Sphingonotus picteti

Endemic Island Grasshoppers highly threatened

During the 2012 IUCN Red List updates, IUCN Red List assessments of all endemic grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets (Orthoptera) of the Canary Islands and the Seychelles have been published. These assessments provide valuable information about the status of these insects and their threats. …  

08 Apr 2013 | Article

Tenodera rungsi nymph

Rediscovery of two rare mantid species in Morocco

A team of Italian and Moroccan scientists has recently rediscovered two mantid species, which have not been recorded for 60 years. …  

28 Feb 2013 | Article

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