The Orthopterists Society Role

The Orthopterists' Society's Orthoptera Database Committee works in cooperation with the Illinois Natural History Survey.

The Orthoptera Database Committee members are:


 * María Marta Cigliano (send mail), Division Entomologia, Museo de la Plata, Paseo del Bosque S/N, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
 * Ted Cohn (send mail), Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
 * David Eades (send mail), Illinois Natural History Survey, 1816 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
 * Sigfrid Ingrisch (send mail), Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
 * Michel Lecoq (send mail), CIRAD, Département amis Acridologie opérationnelle (Prifas), TA40/D, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
 * Piotr Naskrecki (send mail), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
 * Daniel Otte (send mail), Academy of Natural Sciences,1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
 * David Rentz (send mail), CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Canberra, Australia
 * Hugh Rowell (send mail), Chalet Oreïna, 3961 Ayer, Switzerland

Committee members are appointed by the President of the Orthopterists' Society. The responsibilities of the committee are:


 * To advise on design of database and priorities for tasks.
 * To grant awards from the endowment.
 * To review proposed changes to higher ranks within the database. This has been proposed, but there is no current consensus that this should be a committee responsibility.