A Preliminary List of the Orthopteroid Insects of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Dakin ME and Hill JG. 2007. A Preliminary List of the Orthopteroid Insects of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences. 52:153
Due to recent concern over what appears to be rapidly declining levels of biodiversity, Discover Life in America initiated the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, whose main goal is to catalog all the living organisms in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Taxonomists from all over the world have been awarded grants and volunteered their time to this cause. This project will provide checklists, reports, databases, maps, and natural history information for future reference in monitoring biodiversity in the park. As part of this project the authors have been surveying the Orthoptera and associated orders of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for several years. Thus far, we have documented approximately 100 species of Orthopteroid insects as occurring in the park, along with spatial and temporal information. This includes 45 species belonging to the Orthoptera sub-order Celifera (grasshoppers, grouse locusts, and pygmy mole creckets), as well as 46 species belonging to the suborder Ensifera (camel, cave, mole, true crickets, and katydids). Other orders under study include Phasmida (walking sticks), Mantodea (mantids), and Blattaria (roaches).
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Dakin, Matt; Hill, JoVonn
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, ATBI, Blattaria, Celifera, crickets, Ensifera, grasshoppers, GRSM-00115, GRSM-00253, Insects, katydids, mantids, Mantodea, Orthoptera, Phasmida, walking sticks
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Terrestrial Invertebrates