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President’s Message [1] PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE By MICHAEL SAMWAYS President he 11th Congress of bership and [2] INTRODUCING OUR NEW Orthopterology in Kun- Occasional EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ming, China and orga- Publications. nized by Professor Long He also start- [3] SOCIETY NEWS Zhang, was the largest ed to move TT yet, and immensely the Society [3] The Theodore J. Cohn Research successful. There were many stimu- into a truly Fund: A call for applications lating sessions and a great exchange international [4] Symposium Report by MATAN of ideas. Already, this has led to some organization, SHELOMI fruitful new liaisons among several of especially the delegates. The outcomes of some through the [5] OS GRANT REPORTS of these new interactions we will no activity of the Regional Representa- doubt see unfold at our next Congress tives. Of course, Chuck is still an [5] Searching for a hope: An expedi- in Brazil in 2016. active member of the Society and tion in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest continues to give advice on matters by JULIANA CHAMORRO-RENGIFO The Ted Cohn Research Fund of organization. We wish Chuck all The late Ted Cohn was not only a the best in devoting his time to seeing [6] Microbial community structure dedicated Orthopterist, but also an his university Faculty on its way as reflects population genetic struc- extraordinarily dedicated member of its Dean. Thanks, Chuck, for all you ture in an ecologically divergent grasshopper by TYLER JAY RASZICK our Society. As well as being a Past have done for the Society! President twice, he personally saw [7] CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES that many young researchers were Welcome to our new Executive endowed with funds to undertake Director [7] Scattered Recollections: The exciting new research projects. With Our incoming Executive Director as Sequel by STAN GANGWERE his sad passing, Ted was extremely of January 2014 is David Hunter. Da- generous in leaving a bequest to the vid is well-known for his long stand- [15] In Memoriam: Theodore J. Society that has enabled this fund to ing commitment to understanding Cohn (1930 - 2012) by STAN continue in a vigorous way, and to and controlling the Australian plague GANGWERE support young researchers launching locust. He has had a long association their careers with novel research proj- with the Society, among others, as [17] TREASURER’S REPORT ects. This fund is being chaired by Regional Representative for Austral- Michel Lecoq to whom all enquiries asia and the South Pacific. David’s [18] EDITORIAL should be directed. immense experience and enthusiasm stands him in good stead for crafting * This Table of Content is now clickable, which will take you to a desired page. Farewell to, and best wishes for, our new directions for the Society, espe- former Executive Director cially involving new technologies and At the end of 2013, Chuck Bomar approaches. Please see David’s mes- retired as Executive Director of our sage in this same issue of Metaleptea. Society from a double term of eight Welcome, David! years. Chuck did much for the So- ciety, particularly overseeing mem- Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 1 METALEPTEA Regional Representatives South-East Asia and, finally, we • Australiasia, including Pacific: Our Society has an interesting struc- also welcome 3) Claudia Hemp as David Hunter ture in its outreach across the globe Regional Representative for East Af- and has officially appointed Regional rica. Claudia is a long-term supporter For all members, the Regional Representatives around the world. of the Society and an enthusiastic Representatives are our ambassadors This wonderful model is also flexible Orthopterist, who for many years, has for your own geographical region of in that although there are regions that worked in Tanzania. expertise, which may not necessarily are represented, it does not exclude The other Regional Representatives be where you reside, but maybe where the possibility of including new parts are: you do most orthopterology. of regions or even nested regions, • North America: Dan Johnson Please always feel free to contact where special regional expertise exists • South and Central America: your local representative, and do pass and there is great willingness to put Marcos Lhano on any interesting orthopterological a region on the map in terms of its • Western Europe: Fernando Mon- news of whatever nature – on spe- Orthoptera and Orthopterists. tealegre cies, field trips, new behaviours, new We welcome three new Regional • Eastern Europe, North and Cen- ecologies, new conservation proce- Representatives: 1) Rohini Balakrish- tral Asia: Michael Sergeev dures, new methods of control, among nan, who, in Kunming, gave us great • Middle East, Caucasus: Battal many others. Also, if you have any insight into the partitioning of song Çiplak queries with regards to membership among orthopteran species in the • China, Koreas: Zhang Long or functioning of the Society, your tropical forest canopy, comes to us as • Japan: Haruki Tatsuta Regional Representative is your first a Regional Representative for South • North and Sahelian Africa: Mo- line of communication. Asia (principally the Indian sub-con- hammed Abdallahi Ould Babah tinent). From a neighbouring area, we • Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding Wishing all Orthopterists across the welcome 2) Ming Kai, who represents East Africa): Corey Bazelet world a wonderful 2014! Introducing our new Executive Director: David Hunter By DAVID HUNTER Executive Director s the new Executive ter leaving the APLC about 10 years for membership dues in a month or Director, I plan to ago, I have worked as a consultant in so, but in the meantime I encourage continue the great work IPM, a major part of which has been everyone to use the resources of the conducted for the past 8 the testing and promotion of biologi- society to their maximum benefit. years by my predeces- cal products against acridids and other AA sor, Chuck Bomar. First, pests. David Hunter though, a bit of background as to what I am looking forward to working Locust and Grasshopper Control, I have been doing as an Orthopterist with other members of the Board to 125 William Webb Drive for the past 30 years. After B.Sc. and ensure the continuing progress of the McKellar ACT 2617 Australia M.Sc. studies at Simon Fraser Univer- Orthopterists’ Society. We need to Phone: +61400360200 sity in British Columbia, I completed encourage those with any interest in Email: [email protected] my Ph. D. (on biting flies, not Orthop- Orthoptera to join our society by dem- tera!) at the University of Queensland. onstrating its value as a way of ex- I then worked as Entomologist for the changing information and connecting Australian Plague Locust Commission people to one another. The webpage on aspects of the biology of locusts has a lot of information and is a useful that aid their control. During the late way of making and maintaining con- 1990’s, I was part of the team that tacts, but Facebook is becoming in- developed a biological control agent creasingly important, especially if you for the control of locusts and helped find an unusual grasshopper that you implement its use as part of the APLC want identified! You will all no doubt preventive locust control program. Af- hear from me when I send reminders

Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 2 METALEPTEA The Theodore J. Cohn Research Fund: A call for applications for 2014 (Deadline: March 31st, 2014) By MICHEL LECOQ Chair, Theodore J. Cohn Research Fund Committee ellow Orthopterists, etc. (applicants should emphasize lems, even though the actual research the nature and significance of their may be narrower in scope. Proposals It was decided during proposal to provide the judges also should include clearly stated hy- the last Orthopterists’ with the basis for weighing differ- potheses and aims, and the nature of Society Board meeting in ent projects, especially in fields the evidence to be gathered to test the FF Kunming that the formal outside their expertise), hypothesis(es) and possible outcomes. name of the research fund of our Soci- 3. RESEARCH PLAN, including Projects which merely involve “find- ety is now “The Ted Cohn Research the particular orthopterans to be ing out what is there” (important as Fund” in honour of the memory of studied, methods, logistics, etc. that may be) will not be funded. Professor Theodore J. Cohn, founding 4. TIMETABLE, even if approxi- Proposals from graduate students member, past president for two terms, mate, to give the judges some idea must include a simple recommenda- treasurer for many years, and a very of feasibility. tion from their major professor or active supporter of research undertak- CURRICULUM VITAE (half page) advisor. Those not affiliated with an en under the auspices of the Society. including name, full address, pres- educational or research institution We hope that the spirit and vision of ent position or years in graduate should indicate where the work is to Ted will continue to inspire young school, education, number of papers be done. Orthopterists to undertake new excit- published or completed, citation of Important!: A short report will be re- ing research projects. Over the years, selected publications pertinent to the quired from the successful applicants: successful grants covered a wide proposal to aid the judges. it shall be written for our newsletter, range of topics emanating from many BUDGET (half page) including justi- Metaleptea, and be suitable for both countries. During the past 4 years for fication of items where appropriate (i. orthopterist and non-specialist read- example, 25 young scientists from e. why special equipment is necessary ers. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, unless clearly obvious), other funding Please send your application to Germany, New Zealand, UK and USA for the project, etc. Overheads cannot Michel Lecoq ([email protected]) by were funded. be provided for Society grants. March 31, 2014. Following a bequest to our Society, I hope this year, as usual, we will I now have the pleasure to announce The Committee prefers proposals receive many exciting research pro- that it is timely to open a new call for applicable to broad biological prob- posals from our young colleagues. 2014. This research grant is primarily in support of graduate students and young scientists for significant basic research in Orthoptera (s. l.). Each grant is limited to around $1,000 per grantee. Proposals should be submitted to the Chair at the address below.

The proposals should be in the following format and restricted to the indicated number of pages:

DESCRIPTION (one page) 1. TITLE 2. SIGNIFICANCE, stressing the new ideas and aspects of the proposal, expected contribution to Dactylotum bicolor bicolor Charpentier, 1843 (Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Mexico, Hidalgo, Near theory, relation to previous work, Atotonilco El Grande, December 1st, 2013 (photo credit: Ricardo Mariño-Pérez) Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 3 METALEPTEA Symposium Report By MATAN SHELOMI Department of Entomology University of California, Davis n Nov 10, 2013, at the dropping of limbs in response to are found on no other insect. Shelomi 61st Annual Meeting of predation or to bad molts, and nearly concluded that the ampules are excre- the Entomological So- 25% of wild phasmids will lose a limb tory, but with a function quite unlike ciety of America (ESA) during their lifetime. Regeneration the Malpighian tubules they are too in Austin, Texas, a takes three molts and the subsequent frequently compared with. OO “Phasmatodea Studies leg will be about 10-20% shorter than Though the list of speakers was Symposium” was held. The moderator an original leg. Seeking the tradeoffs small (as expected, given the paucity and organizer was Matan Shelomi, a of this metabolically demanding trait, of phasmid researchers, especially Ph.D. Candidate in Entomology at the Maginnis found that wingless phas- within the United States), a small University of California, Davis (U.C. mids that had to regenerate a limb crowd gathered to hear the talks and Davis), who was also there to receive produced fewer eggs while winged the information shared was mutually one of the six John Henry Comstock phasmids possessed the same fecun- beneficial. This may even have been Graduate Student Awards given that dity, but smaller wings. the largest amount of Phasmatodea- year. Ending the symposium was Shelo- related talks in recent ESA meeting The first speaker was Yu Zeng, a mi, who presented his findings on the history. Interest in the enigmatic yet Ph.D. student in the Animal Flight “Anatomy of the Phasmatodea Diges- charming order is likely to grow over Lab of Robert Dudley at U.C. Davis. tive Tract: Enzymes and Appendices.” time, especially given Shelomi’s suc- His talk, entitled “Wing evolution and The paper was an updated version cesses in promoting his research via flight biomechanics in stick insects” of the one he presented earlier this social media. He was interviewed at related findings on the spread of year at the International Congress of the conference by Orthopterists’ Soci- winglessness in the phasmid phylog- Orthopterology in Kunming, China, ety member and volunteer videogra- eny and included high-speed videos for which he won first prize. His find- pher, Derek A. Woller, for the ESA’s of phasmids leaping, falling, and ings include the presence of endog- blog, EntomologyToday.org, and his flying to show the utility of various- enously produced cellulase enzymes research on phasmids has previously sized wings. Of note was the report in the phasmid midgut as well as new been depicted in an animated “2 Min- of altitudinal gradients in phasmid insight into the function of the “ap- ute Thesis” video by PHD Comics wing size in the Malay Peninsula with pendices of the midgut,” a series of entitled “Mystery Tubes in the Stick subsequent changes in their escape thin tubules that arise from ampules Bug’s Gut.” behavior and dietary breadth. on the Phasmid midgut and which Next was Dr. Daniel J Funk of Vanderbilt University, who related research he did with Patrick Nosil of the University of Sheffield, UK, out of a lab at U.C. Davis. Entitled “Ma- jor ecological shifts both promote and retard speciation in Timema stick insects”, the talk was on research testing the effects of ecological divergence on reproductive isolation. Found only in California and some neighboring regions, Timema are the most basal of the Phasmatodea and appear to speciate parapatrically, with adjacent populations that do not overlap. Dr. Tara Maginnis of the University of Portland gave her talk on “Legs and Eggs: Autotomy, regeneration, and reproduction in phasmids.” Phasmids are known for their frequent Lesina sp. (Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini). (photo credit: Eddy Chong, contributed to the Society’s Facebook Page) Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 4 METALEPTEA The Orthopterists’ Society Grant Reports

Searching for a hope: An expedition in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest By JULIANA CHAMORRO-RENGIFO Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia “Esperança” (hope) is the common name given to katydids in Brazil.” Departamento de Entomologia Universidade Federal de Viçosa Viçosa MG, Brazil t all started with a challenging visited were surrounded by some kind idea: collect katydids in Con- of plantation. servation Units (CUs) of the Due to the ecological and historical Brazilian Atlantic Forests (AF). characteristics of this biome, I de- The mission was hard, but, in cided to collect katydids in different II the end, we achieved our goal! CUs of the AF. The trip started in The AF covers the mountainous Bra- November 2011 and it ended in Janu- zilian coast along the Atlantic Ocean, ary 2012. which is known to shelter very high I collected in 14 different CUs, with biodiversity and, unfortunately, is one the aid of colleagues and a field as- of the most threatened biomes in the sistant. These CUs were national and Figure 2. Female ovipositing in a tree trunk. world. The AF has a variety of land- state parks, or even private reserves. scapes because of its different gradi- We travelled to the states of Rio de morphospecies were made available ents of altitude and a very complex Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, at http://katydidsfrombrazil.lifedesks. and still barely understood biogeo- and Bahia and stayed three nights in org (lifedesk). graphic history. The Brazilian coast each CU. The forests differ in terms I think that the most fascinating is a narrow strip in comparison to the of their conservation status, from fre- event was when a female suddenly whole country, but it has experienced quently interfered to highly preserved. landed in front of us on a trail and drastic geological and climatic events, A total of 1,073 individuals were quickly put her ovipositor in a trunk which has affected the history of its collected, including immatures and of a big tree and left her eggs (Fig. current biota. Despite its significance adults. Living individuals were pho- 2). Fortunately, we were ready for in terms of biodiversity, the AF is also tographed (Fig. 1), and all specimens recording the moment. one of the most fragmented forests in were processed in the field. From From my experience during this sur- the world. Sadly, almost all CUs we most collected individuals, a sample vey, I believe that the katydids of the for DNA extraction (a leg) was pre- AF deserve constant monitoring, with served in alcohol. more field work, in order to acquire All specimens have been identified, more biological information on the but several belong to undescribed numerous species in order to evaluate taxa, and it will certainly take a long their conservation status. time to describe them all. Species that This expedition was made possible had not been recorded in nature for through support from my advisor, a long time were also photographed, Prof. Cristiano Lopes-Andrade, who and we now have new and impor- kindly heard my ideas, and Prof. Lú- tant distributional records for them. cio A. O. Campos who lent us a car. Figure 1. Several species of walking leaves Images have been added to the OSF (Pterochrozini) live in the AF. Financial support was provided by a and, simultaneously, images of all grant from the Orthopterists’ Society Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 5 METALEPTEA 2010, the project “Biota de Orthoptera awarded by TWAS-CNPq. I will be far is with a digital camera that he do Brasil” headed by Prof. Carlos F. forever grateful to Dr. David Eades, gave me a few years ago. Sperber, and my Doctoral scholarship because all the pictures I’ve taken so Microbial community structure reflects population genetic structure in an ecologically divergent grasshopper By TYLER JAY RASZICK Department of Biology University of Central Florida

he spotted bird grass- and derives chemi- hopper, Schistocerca cal defense from its lineata Scudder, 1899 host plant [4,5,6]. (Orthoptera: Acrididae), With regards to is a widely-distributed population genetic TT North American spe- structure, Ptelea- cies that occurs in highly localized feeders have been and potentially isolated populations shown to be geneti- that are often associated with differ- cally distinct from Figure 1. Field photos of the surveyed ecotypes of Schistocerca lineata: ent host plants [1,2]. Some popula- the Rubus-feeders A. Rubus-feeding and B. Ptelea-feeding. tions have been shown to display based on mito- not need to metabolize plant second- ontogenetic specialization in which chondrial DNA [3]. ary chemicals. juveniles are host specific, but adults Bacterial endosymbionts have been I collected 10 first, second, or third become more generalist [3,4], and this shown to help herbivorous insects instar nymphs from 5 populations of is likely the general pattern for the withstand gut-borne pathogens and Ptelea-feeders and 3 populations of species. Although there are a variety may promote rapid evolution and Rubus-feeders across Texas directly of ecotypes, only two (Fig. 1) have adaptation in their hosts [7,8,9,10]. into 100% ethanol and complete ge- very well-characterized ecologies Additionally, they are also known to nomic DNA was extracted using the [3,4]. Both found in Texas, the first contribute to nutrition for insects on QIAGEN DNeasy Kit. As this kit is ecotype is associated with dewberry, suboptimal diets [7,8] and can even non-specific this process also extracts Rubus trivialis Michx., and is tan in metabolize secondary plant chemicals DNA from all bacteria in the sample. color, while the second ecotype feeds that might otherwise be detrimental I then used 454 pyrosequencing almost exclusively on the toxic wafer to the host [9]. In the desert locust (Research and Testing Labs, Lub- ash, Ptelea trifoliata (L.), and dis- Schistocerca gregaria, the gut mi- bock, Texas) to sequence the bacte- plays density-dependent aposematism crobial community is dominated by a rial 16S gene for all bacteria in each relatively low individual. These sequences were number of spe- then identified using BLAST, provid- cies acquired ing presence-absence data for every from the diet bacterial species across the dataset. I [11]. Consider- was also able to infer relative abun- ing that P. trifo- dances of bacterial species in each liata is known grasshopper. Next, I determined bac- to be cytotoxic terial generic richness in each sample [12], I hypoth- using the Shannon-Weiner Index of esized that diversity and compared diversity Ptelea-feeding across populations and across eco- populations of types. I then carried out a hierarchical S. lineata will cluster analysis (HCA) based on the harbor a micro- mean relative abundances of the 12 bial community most abundant bacterial genera and different from compared the pattern to the known that of Rubus- population genetic structure of the Figure 2. Mean Shannon-Wiener Diversity of gut microbes for each sur- feeders, who do veyed ecotype of Schistocerca lineata. two ecotypes. Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 6 METALEPTEA that these two ecotypes niche in resource-associated divergence: are distinct from one evidence from a generalist grasshopper. another in terms of both Evolution 56: 731-740. 4. Sword GA, Dopman EB (1999) Develop- genetic divergence and mental specialization and geographic microbial community structure of host plant use in a polypha- divergence. This work gous grasshopper, Schistocerca emar- is part of an ongoing ginata (=lineata) (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Oecologia 120: 437-445. project that seeks to re- 5. Sword GA (2001) Tasty on the outside, solve this issue, among but toxic in the middle: Grasshopper others, and to investi- regurgitation and host plant-mediated gate the evolutionary toxicity to a vertebrate predator. Oecolo- role of the bacterial gia 128: 416-421. 6. Sword GA (1999) Density-dependent community in these warning coloration. Nature 397: 217. fascinating divergent 7. Dillon RJ, Dillon VM (2004) The Gut Bac- lineages. teria of Insects: Nonpathogenic Interac- Funding for 454 tions. Annual Review of Entomology 49: 71-92. pyrosequencing of 8. Moran NA (2006) Symbiosis. Current the bacterial 16S gene Biology 16: R866-R871. Figure 3. Hierarchical cluster analysis showing similarity of gut bac- 9. Dillon RJ, Charnley AK (2002) Mutualism terial community structure across populations of the two surveyed was provided by the between the desert locust Schistocerca ecotypes of S. lineata. Lighter color (yellow/tan) indicates higher Orthopterists’ Society gregaria and its gut microbiota. Research abundance. Research Fund 2011 in Microbiology 153: 503-509. I discovered that mean microbial Award. 10. Hansen AK, Moran NA (2013) The impact diversity is higher in Ptelea-feeders of microbial symbionts on host plant uti- than in Rubus-feeders (Fig 2.) and that References Cited lization by herbivorous insects. Molecular 1. Song H (2004) Revision of the Alutacea Ecology doi: 10.1111/mec.12421. microbial community composition is Group of genus Schistocerca (Orthoptera: 11. Dillon RJ, Vennard CT, Buckling A, Charn- distinctly different between the two Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae). Annals ley AK (2005) Diversity of locust gut bac- ecotypes (Fig. 3). Although there is of the Entomological Society of America teria protects against pathogen invasion. population level variation within eco- 97: 420-436. Ecology Letters 8: 1291-1298. 12. Petit PG, Montagu M, Tremouillaux GJ, types, when populations are pooled 2. Song H, Wenzel JW (2008) Mosaic pattern of genital divergence in three popu- Chenieux JC, Rideau M (1993) Ptelea by ecotype, it becomes very clear lations of Schistocerca lineata Scudder, trifoliata (quinine tree, hop tree): in vitro that microbial community structure 1899 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacan- culture and the production of alkaloids reflects the population genetic struc- thacridinae). Biological Journal of the and medicinal compounds. In: Bajaj YPS, ture as well as host plant association. Linnean Society 94: 289-301. editor. Biotechnology in agriculture and 3. Dopman EB, Sword GA, Hillis DM (2002) forestry Vol 21 Medicinal and aromatic One Ptelea-feeding population, BCD, The importance of the ontogenetic plants. Berlin: Springer. does not cluster as expected, clustering with the Rubus-feeders rather than the other Ptelea-feeders (Fig. 3). One possibility for this, despite the lack of empirical evidence, is that, while collecting, I noticed that BCD was a field site with no canopy cover while all other Ptelea-feeding populations were collected in areas with at least some vertical vegetative structure. This suggests that microbial community may be mediated by more than simply host plant association, but also by the local plant community. Nonetheless, our HCA revealed a clustering pattern based on microbial community structure that sorts the eight populations into two groups that reflect the monophyletic clades recovered by Dracotettix monstrosus Bruner, 1889 (Romaleidae). Dopman et al. (2002), demonstrating San Diego County, CA. (photo credit: Bob Parks, contributed to the Society’s Facebook Page) Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 7 METALEPTEA Scattered Recollections: The Sequel By STAN GANGWERE Professor Emeritus Wayne State University Detroit, MI, USA y interest in the orthopteroid insects spans well over six decades during which time I’ve come to MM know hundreds of Orthopterists working on all aspects of our economically important insect group. These specialists of yester- year, now all deceased, deserve not to be forgotten in today’s rush toward advancement. Some years ago, I wrote an article entitled “Fifty Years Chasing Orthoptera” (Metaleptea 27) and, more recently, one entitled “Scat- tered Recollections” (Metaleptea 29). Gordon Alexander (photo taken from http:// Frederick B. Isely (photo taken from http:// Today, in my continuing capacity as ghopclimate.colorado.edu/initial_survey/pho- www.isely.info/Fred/fred.html) the Orthopterists’ Society’s unofficial tos_family.html) archivist, I’m providing a follow-up food habits. I’ll treat them in order of a tour of the campus, and introduced to the latter article with some new mention, Alexander first, then Isely. me to local officials, after which we descriptions, each based on little more Gordon Alexander (1901-1971) was talked at length about our shared than my personal memory of the Departmental Chairman at the Uni- orthopterological interests. He was deceased individuals (in instances in versity of Colorado, Boulder, Colora- generous in his praise of my research which I was fortunate enough to have do. My professional relationship with and, with his warm, pleasant manner, met them in person), as supplemented him was, at first, through friend Harry made me feel welcome, as a result by documents from my files. These Grant who, for a time, worked under of which I can appreciate why he is accounts, some of them scant indeed, Alexander at Colorado. Grant appar- so affectionately remembered by his are offered in hopes of elucidating ently told Alexander of my mono- former students and colleagues. something of the life, personality, and graph on feeding behavior which was Alexander’s research ranged widely accomplishments of said persons, the then in press in the 1951 Transac- from development of keys to the research of many of whom related, tions of the American Philosophical grasshoppers of Colorado, to study directly or indirectly, to my own field Society, whereupon Alexander wrote of the adaptations of organisms of study. I need only add that these me expressing interest in this work living along gradients in elevation, accounts do not purport to be full and volunteering to send me copies of and to work on the biogeography of biographies, being nothing more than his late father-in-Iaw’s publications. birds and grasshoppers of the Rocky incomplete vignettes, for which I He later happened upon my 1967 Mountain and Front Range of Colo- apologize. article “A biologist’s view of Spain rado. Upon retirement, he donated to and the Spanish university system” the university his entire collection of G. Alexander & F.B. Isely (Grad. Comment 10) and requested 24,000 grasshopper specimens taken information on Spanish research from the 1930’s onward as well as his I treat this duo together because of workers and institutions to visit on his 1958-1960 study collection taken in their close familial and research rela- then forthcoming sabbatical journey collaboration with John Hilliard dur- tionship, Alexander being the son-in- to that country. I willingly provided ing their NSF-funded project on alti- law and conservator of father-in-law that information but didn’t meet him tudinal distribution. His colleagues, Isely’s research materials and, in his in person until the 1961 American In- M. D. Bowers and C. Nufio, discussed own right, a distinguished orthop- stitute of Biological Sciences meeting Alexander’s many contributions to the teran specialist, and Isely, one of the in Boulder. He attended my presenta- orthopterology of their state in their pioneers in the study of orthopteran tion at the Boulder meeting, gave me 2008 Metaleptea article. Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 8 METALEPTEA Frederick B. Isely (1873-1947) was of Michigan. Unfortunately, how- a distinguished, long-time professor ever, I wasn’t able either to meet him at Trinity University, Waxahachie, personally or to correspond with him Texas. He was born on the family because of his demise occurring well farm in Fairview, Kansas, and was before my time. educated in that community before moving on to the University of M. Beier Chicago. His first employment was in college administration, serving as The Austrian arachnologist/ento- Dean at Culver-Stockton College and mologist, Max Beier, was born in then at Texas Women’s College, Fort 1903 in Spittal an der Drau and died Worth. Then, in 1931, he returned to in Vienna in 1979. During his years at his first love, viz., teaching, at Trin- Vienna’s Naturhistorisches Museum, ity. He took nominal retirement in he researched pseudoscorpions as 1946, whereupon he was awarded well as orthopteroids. With respect the honorary Sc.D. degree, but he to the latter, one need only recall his Grigory Y. Bey-Bienko (photo taken from continued work until his death at San landmark, two-part treatment of them http://bunyipco.blogspot.com/2013_03_01_ Antonio, Texas. His research was on in “Biologie der Tiere Deutschlands” archive.html) both freshwater mussels (supported (1933, 1934) in the revision of which attend, but would arrive a few days by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries) and he was actively involved when I made later than the others of the Ameri- Orthoptera (supported by the National arrangements to visit him years later can contingent. To my surprise, he Research Council and the American at the Vienna museum. Unfortunately, personally met me at the gate on my Philosophical Society). I had to postpone that visit because of arrival at Moscow Airport, gave me a Throughout his life, despite a heavy scheduling difficulties, and Dr. Beier tour of the city in his chauffeur-driven teaching load, he worked tirelessly expired before I could reschedule it. I limousine, and took me to the offices both in the field and in the labora- thereby missed an opportunity to meet of Dr. E. S. Smirnov, the organizer tory producing, among other clas- someone who, in my opinion, was one of the congress, before dropping me sic publications, the following ones of the greats of 20th Century orthop- off at my hotel. Though understand- related to feeding behavior: “The terology, though he is not usually so ably busy, Prof. Bey-Bienko stopped relations of Texas Acrididae to plants recognized today, his name having by to see me again on the day of my and soils” (Ecol. Mon. 8, 1938), lapsed into relative obscurity. talk, whereupon we enjoyed another “Researches concerning Texas Tet- extended discussion. I continued cor- tigoniidae” (Ecol. Mon. 11, 1941), G.Y. Bey-Bienko responding with him afterward until “Correlation between mandibular the time of his death. In my opinion, morphology and food specificity in I first met Dr. Grigory Y. Bey- he was not only a scholar but, be- grasshoppers” (Ann. Entomol. Soc. Bienko (1903-1971) at the 1964 cause of his exceptional kindness and America 37, 1944), “Differential feed- International Congress of Entomol- easygoing manner, a gentleman whom ing in relation to local distribution of ogy celebrated in London. I had I won’t soon forget. He was, as noted grasshoppers” (Ecol. 27, 1946), and, known of him previously from having by T. H. Hubbell, “a down-to-earth co-authored with Alexander, “Analy- perused his 1963 co-authored (with person with the relaxed manner of an sis of insect food habits by crop L. L. Mischenko) book “Locusts Iowa farm boy”. examination” (Science 109, 1949). An and Grasshoppers of the USSR and obituary outlining Professor Isely’s Adjacent Countries” (Israel Program R.F. Chapman life and discussing his contributions Sci. Transl.). In London, he and I to our knowledge of the biology of discussed his activities in Russia and Dr. Reginald (Reg) F. Chapman Texas and southwestern United States mine, both in the U. S. A. and in the (1930-2003) is another pioneering Or- grasshoppers and katydids was writ- Iberian Peninsula, and he provided thopterist whom, with regret, I failed ten by Alexander (Entomol. News 60: some citations from Soviet Union to meet in person though aspects of 29-30). As a side note, I might add research with which I wasn’t previ- his research mirrored some of my that, upon perusal of Professor Isely’s ously familiar. Then, on the occasion own, and I often turned to his publica- seminal studies, I was persuaded to of the following world congress held tions, including his 1964 paper “The undertake similar research on the in Moscow in 1968, I wrote to Dr. structure and wear of the mandibles southeastern Michigan fauna at the Bey-Bienko (who was President of in some African grasshoppers” (Proc. onset of my career at the University that congress) affirming that I would Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 9 METALEPTEA

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Zool. Soc. London 142) and his 1957 where he shared a productive scien- zoologique de France. He published paper, “Observations on the feeding tific collaboration with his wife, Liz numerous papers and several books of adults of the Red Locust (Nomad- Bernays, herself a noted Orthopter- on the French, Mediterranean, and acris septemfasciata [Serville])” (Br. ist. The two of them co-authored a general orthopteroid fauna; notable J. Anim. Behav. 5), and, for a time, I number of important studies on insect among them are his 1938 “La bi- used his 1969 textbook “The Insects: feeding behavior, including their ologie des Orthoptères” (Encycl. Structure and Function” (American 1970 publication “Food selection by Entamal., Lechevalier), his 1943 “ Elsevier) in teaching my course in Chorthippus parallelus (Zetterstedt) Orthoptéroïdes de l’ Afrique du Nord” entomology. He also wrote (co-edited (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in the field” (Larose), and his 1951 “Faune de with Tony Joern) “The Biology of (J. Anim. Ecol. 39). Dr. Chapman’s France” (Pt. 56, Orthopteroides) (En- Grasshoppers.” I served with Reg on impressive scientific accomplishments cycl. Entamal., Lechevalier). If one the panel of outside experts who, by have been reviewed both by Walter were to assess his career based solely mail, reviewed Robert Cook’s doc- Blaney (Physiol. Entomol. 28) and by on his numerous, excellent publica- toral dissertation, and I talked to him Gregory Sword (Metaleptea 24). tions, one would necessarily conclude by telephone on occasion including, that he was another of the greats of on our last call, conveying to him the L. Chopard 20th Century orthopterology, notwith- Governing Board’s wishes that he run standing reservations expressed about for election to the office of President I was unsuccessful in meeting one him by the irascible J.A.G. Rehn (as of the Orthopterists’ Society. He of Eugenio Morales’ close friends, the explained in the original “Scattered turned down our offer cordially, but famous French Orthopterist, Lucien Recollections”). without explanation; I later learned Chopard (1885-1971). In response to that our request had been inopportune my inquiry on the occasion of one of V. M. Dirsh owing to the fact that he was then my annual trips to the continent some so seriously ill that he died shortly years after his retirement, I received Much of Vitaly M. Dirsh’s early life afterward. an enthusiastic invitation to visit history in the Soviet Union is clouded Dr. Chapman’s early activities were him at his offices and see his collec- in mystery, but the little that is known with the University of London’s Birk- tions housed in the Muséum national is this: he escaped to Austria from his beck College where he lectured and d’Histoire naturelle in Paris. Unfortu- country of birth and wandered about from which he received his doctorate nately, he expired shortly before my in Vienna for a time. His compatriot, in 1953. His later activities were with scheduled visit was consummated. B. P. Uvarov, finally rescued him, the Red Locust Control Service and Dr. Chopard was one of his museum’s appointing him to a research position the University of Ghana’s Biologi- most prestigious scientists, having in the Anti-Locust Research Centre cal Research Institute. Thereafter, he served as its Subdirector and, in 1931, (ALRC), where he worked until his lectured at the University of Arizona having been President of the Société retirement in 1971 and his death some

Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 10 METALEPTEA years afterward. Among Vitaly’s Acridological Society significant publications were his 1975 (the Orthopterists’ “The African genera of Acridoidea” Society’s precursor) in (ALRC), his 1975 “Classification San Martín, Argentina, of the Acridomorphoid Insects” and was impressed (Classey), and his 1956 “The phallic by his knowledge of complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) orthopteroids, enthu- in relation to taxonomy” (Trans. R. siasm for field work, Entamal. Soc. London). and mastery of the I first met him at the 1964 Inter- English language. He national Congress of Entomology in attended all of the London and found him to be extraor- early meetings of the dinarily affable and informative. He Orthopterists’ Soci- Nick Jago (photo taken from Harvey, A.W. 2005, JOR 14(2):175- and I conversed extensively on that ety, gave excellent, 178) day, and he wrote to me afterward well-received papers Kevan or his work until 1958 when I apologizing for his failure to see me at each, and was persuaded to deliver addressed the Entomological Society on subsequent days of the congress the Valsain, Spain meeting’s keynote of Canada at Guelph, Ontario. After inasmuch as he had become stricken address. I had finished showing my motion by a viral infection. I corresponded I last conversed with Nick in person picture presentation on the use of or- with him regularly thereafter, availing at the meeting of Orthopterists held thopteran mouthparts during feeding myself of his expertise in handling the at Siena, Italy, upon the conclusion and reading my paper on that subject, various Spanish and other acridoid of which I was fortunate enough to Keith questioned me at length about taxonomic problems that confronted return to London with him. We trans- some of the specifics of my paper and me, the solutions for which were ferred for our connecting flight at Pisa also told me of Dr. Popham’s publi- found with Dirsh’s invaluable assis- where I lunched with him at a modest cation on earwig feeding, viz., “The tance. He later visited us in Michigan outside restaurant in the shadow of feeding habits of Dermaptera” (XVth on which occasion he demonstrated a the famous leaning tower of that his- Congr. Zool.). At first, I found Keith’s prodigious capacity for the consump- toric city. The two of us then contin- manner imperious and overwhelming, tion of alcoholic beverages. He could ued discussing our current activities but the two of us exchanged corre- drain much of a bottle of vodka in on the Pisa-London return trip, and spondence, met on numerous occa- one sitting and then walk away; an our conversation was so engrossing sions thereafter, dined together many impressive feat indeed! that the flight seemed over almost as times, and became friends. At one soon as it began. I corresponded with such meeting I remember someone N.D. Jago him regularly thereafter but never asking: “What, precisely, Dr. Kevan, again had the pleasure of conversing is the proper definition of an Orthop- I was familiar with Nick Jago’s in person with him. There is little else terist?” Keith answered definitively, early research in East Africa but I can say. His colleague, Andrew Har- with the certainty that only he could knew little else of him until, in 1968, vey, of the United Nations’ Food and muster, that such a person is a taxono- he became Curator of lnsects at the Agriculture Organization (FAO), has mist who researches taxa from among Academy of Natural Sciences in written movingly of Nick’s profes- the orthopteroid insects. I disagreed Philadelphia, whereupon I began cor- sional life, his personal interests, his with that definition, pointing out to responding with him on routine mat- vintage motor cars, etc. Those who the group that many entomologists ters such as outside review of doctoral wish additional information may tum (including myself) who do no taxo- dissertations, etc. Then, in 1970, he to Harvey’s tribute (JOR 14). nomic research at all nevertheless left behind the conventional life of devote their lives to the study of one a museum taxonomist for a career at D.K.McE. Kevan & V.R. Vickery aspect or another of the structure, the Anti-Locust Research Centre in function, or behavior of orthopteroid London. That move entailed under- Keith Kevan and Vernon Vickery insects, and they, too, are deserving of taking locust control projects in Mali were well-known Orthopterists who the appellation. and other developing-world countries, worked as a team on the Macdonald My close friend and distinguished activities which don’t appeal to most Campus of McGill University in Spanish Orthopterist, the late Eugenio western academicians, but he thrived Quebec, Canada, so it seems appro- Morales, spoke admiringly of Keith on them. I first met Nick in person priate to treat them together, as I do except for his handling of the Institu- at the meeting of the Pan American below. I had known little about Keith Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 11 METALEPTEA but he was always a gentleman. He faithfully attended all of our meetings and was elected President to preside over the Valsain, Spain, 1989 meeting. He and I started planning for the Valsain meeting some years earlier. We first visited FAO Headquarters in Rome in hopes of securing funding for his ambitious “Handbook of Locust and Most Serious Grasshop- per Pests of the World.” We then began several days of discussion with Meeting Organizer, Eugenio Morales, Keith Kevan (photo taken from Vernon Vickery (photo taken from and his associates in Madrid before http://140.247.119.225/OrthSoc/galleries/Or- http://140.247.119.225/OrthSoc/galleries/Or- adjourning to the University of Michi- thopterists/orthopterists_3/orts3.html) thopterists/orthopterists_5/orts5.html) gan museum and my house in Ann to’s cherished grasshopper specimens; Overall, I admired Keith’s wide Arbor. Retirement notwithstanding, he always talked about him as the scope of interest, his firm grasp of Vic continued working for his institu- “the specimen breaker,” and, as much general orthopterology, and his drive tion after 1986, faithfully attending as he enjoyed receiving him in his and enthusiasm, though some of his its bee hives (resulting in his book on laboratory at Madrid, he shuddered at ideas were controversial. An example honey bees), conducting research on the thought of all of the broken legs, of this was his 1976 draft scheme the crickets, mantids, and stick insects missing antennae, etc., resulting from for “Suprafamilial classification of of Baja California, and completing Keith’s whirlwind visits. A decade orthopteroid and related insects, Kevan’s unfinished projects, includ- after our first meeting, I invited Keith applying the principles of symbolic ing Part 4 of the latter’s “Land of the to address both our Biology Collo- logic” (XVth Intern. Congr. Entomol., Locusts.” Unfortunately, by 1999, he quium at Wayne State University and Washington, D. C.). He also wrote an was so disabled by prostate, hiatal our monthly meeting of the Detroit article for Metaleptea that discussed hernia, and other medical complaints Branch of the Michigan Entomologi- his collection of entomological figu- that he left the museum and retired to cal Society. He came and delivered rines and thereafter labeled himself an a bungalow in his place of birth, Nova excellent, well-received talks. His “ethnoentomologist.” I have an exten- Scotia, where he hoped to complete early research consisted largely of sive collection of such items myself, some unfinished manuscripts, but, taxonomic and faunistic studies on but I hardly feel that I am a qualified alas, his health did not permit much various Old World tropical taxa, such ethnoentomologist. and he died some years afterward. as the genera Atractomorpha and Vernon Vickery (Vic) (1921-2011) Chrotogonus. Among his early papers served for 38 years at the Lyman R.A. Ronderos was his 1964 “Methodes inhabituelles Museum before retiring as Emeritus de production de son chez les Orthop- Curator of that institution in 1986. I worked closely with Ricardo teres” (Ann. Epiphyt.fasc. hors serie), His less pretentious, more “down-to- Ronderos (1928-1995) for several a work that I found useful. His later earth” behavior and speech marked decades and knew him well indeed. research, including his 1983 study him as different from his mentor, the Our first meeting took place during of Canadian millipedes (Canad. J. smoother, more loquacious, English- 1966-1967 when I was a Fulbright Zool. 61) and his discussion of that born Keith Kevan. I had met Vic Senior Research Scholar working in country’s terrestrial arthropods (Biol. previously during his earlier visits to Eugenio Morales’ laboratory at the Surv. Canada), was undertaken in the University of Michigan campus, Instituto Español de Entomología, Quebec while he served as Chairman but really didn’t know him well until Madrid. I remember clearly one day of Entomology at McGill University’s the society’s San Martín, Argentina, when Morales (whom I discussed in Macdonald College. He carried out meeting, one which Keith wasn’t able the original “Scattered Recollections” this non-orthopteroid research while to attend owing to illness. Vic was [Metaleptea 29] ) entered my office also undertaking ambitious studies a hard-working, serious individual to tell me that the Argentine acridolo- on Orthoptera, writing, for example, totally dedicated to his science and to gist, Ricardo Ronderos was soon to “A Monograph of the Orthopter- the welfare of his institution. He was visit. I knew relatively little about the oid Insects of Canada and Adjacent given to voicing strong opinions from South American investigators of the Regions” and “Land of the Locusts.” which he was not readily dislodged, time, but I had heard of Ricardo and Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 12 METALEPTEA looked forward to meeting him. He San Martín, Argentina. As mentioned was in the habit of taking the family was not a disappointment. He proved above, the 1976 conference, imple- on regular summer vacations, and it to be a mustachioed, exuberant, mented on the basis of my NSF award was during these trips that Uvarov extraordinarily affable, and hand- and his matching CONICET grant became interested in insect study. He some Latin American. He was highly under provisions of the U.S.- Argen- joined the Department of Agriculture experienced, having served, at one tina Cooperative Science Program, in St. Petersburg, whereupon he began time or another, as Professor of Ar- led to the creation of the Pan Ameri- writing papers on the Orthoptera of thropods and Head of the Department can Acridological Society which, in Transcaucasia, but, with the rise of of Entomology of the Universidad de tum, evolved into today’s Orthopter- Georgian nationalism and the Russian La Plata, as Director of the Center for ists’ Society upon the demise of the revolution, he found life increasingly the Study of Parasitology at La Plata, Association d’ Acridologie. The San difficult to the extent that, in 1920, as Vice-Dean at La Plata, and as As- Martín meeting brought together a Uvarov, wife, and young son emi- sistant Director of the governmental good-sized contingent of Central and grated to the United Kingdom upon Institute of Limnology. Despite han- South American, North American, acceptance of a job offer from the dling all of these important responsi- and European investigators and was Imperial (Commonwealth) Bureau of bilities at various times, he somehow followed by meetings in Bozeman Entomology. By 1921, he had ob- found the time to publish extensively (USA), Maracay (Venezuela), Saska- served that certain true locusts exist on several orders, especially the acri- toon (Canada), Hilo (USA), Valsain in two different phases, the so-called domorph Orthoptera. (Spain), Montpellier (France), Cairns gregarious phase and the solitary He and I became friends and began (Australia), and other venues leading phase, each separable from the other a close professional relationship that up to the present. structurally, physiologically, and lasted until his death in 1995. In 1973, In my capacity as President and, behaviorally and each so distinct from I received a Fulbright Senior Research later, Executive Director of the the other that earlier taxonomists had Scholarship to work in Ricardo’s Society and Ricardo’s as President- regarded them as separate species. laboratory in La Plata. During that Elect for the Valsain meeting, we Uvarov’s reputation quickly became year, Ricardo, his associates, and I continued working on the affairs of such that the British Government carried out field work throughout Ar- our rapidly burgeoning organiza- placed him in charge of a new organi- gentina resulting in the publication of tion during his 1975 Fulbright - U.S. zation, the Anti-Locust Research Cen- our co-authored 1975 paper “A syn- Government per diem award. Ricardo tre (ALRC), with responsibility over opsis of food selection in Argentine hoped that the latter award, by his the empire’s entire international insect Acridoidea” (Acrida 4). Then, during research visits to the main repositories control effort. He was exceptionally his visit to the United States fol- of its types at the National Museum prolific, writing 465 publications lowing mine to Argentina, we wrote in Washington, D. C., the Academy distributed about equally between our co-authored review article “The of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, the periods of his life. His scientific current status of New World acridol- and the University of Michigan, Ann contributions were so important that ogy “ (Interciencia 3) and planned our Arbor, would contribute to a better many different nations bestowed acridological conference to be held in understanding of the long - neglected special medals, commendations, and South American Ommexechidae. other scientific honors upon him, and While in Ann Arbor, he stayed in my his adopted country, Great Britain, house and also worked in my Detroit knighted him. Among his significant laboratory at Wayne State University. publications were his 1928 “Locusts I’ve discussed these things in depth in and Grasshoppers” (Imp. Bur. Ento- my memoirs, and our colleague, the mol.), his 1929 “Insect nutrition and Uruguayan acridologist, Carlos Car- metabolism” (Trans. R. Entomol. bonell, has written a detailed account Soc.), his 1931 “Insects and climate” of Ricardo’s life and achievements (Trans. R. Entomol. Soc.), his 1938 (“Obituary, Ricardo A. Ronderos: “Ecological and biogeographical rela- 1928 - 1995,” [JOR 5], 1996). tions of Eremian Acrididae” (Mem. Soc. Biogeogr.), and, of course, his B.P. Uvarov 1966 Vol. 1 of “Grasshoppers and Lo- custs” and his posthumous 1975 Vol. Ricardo Ronderos (photo taken from Boris Petrovich Uvarov (1889- 2 (COPR). Uvarov’s colleagues, N. http://140.247.119.225/OrthSoc/galleries/Or- 1970) was born in Uralsk, Southeast Waloff and G.B. Popov, published his thopterists/orthopterists_4/orts4.html) Russia. His father, a bank manager, obituary (Annu. Rev. Entomol. 1990, Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 13 METALEPTEA mation and advice on facilities for a person meticulous to a fault in all that possible trip there. In April, 1967, he he did, and I noted that his comments commented on my Atlanticus testa- were generally a propos. For ex- ceus paper, but questioned my con- ample, in March, 1965, when queried clusions on the insect’s oviposition about the demise of J.A.G. Rehn, his habits before, in June, 1967, acknowl- erstwhile competitor, he affirmed that, edging that I was right based on the yes, Rehn had done a tremendous proof I sent him a month later. In amount of work on Orthoptera but, in Aug., 1967, he was critical of my Ibe- his opinion, he had relied too much on rian biogeography paper (coauthored his personal experiences while ignor- with Morales) when he reviewed ing advances made by others. Then, it. In Feb., 1968, to my surprise, he a year later, in March, 1966, when wrote me of his plans to attend the commenting on the untimely demise then-forthcoming XIIIth International of Rehn’s young successor at the Congress in Moscow, a visit that I Philadelphia Academy, Harry Grant, know materialized because I talked to he said it was an unfortunate develop- him there despite the circumstances of ment because he thought Harry to be Sir Boris Uvarov (photo taken from Waloff, N. his departure from the Soviet Union a fine entomologist who promised an & Popov, G.B. 1990. Annual Review of Ento- so many years earlier. Sir Boris died improved future cooperation between mology 35:1-24.) some years afterward, and I heard the Academy and his ALRC. More- no. 35: 1-24). nothing further from his laboratory over, I detected a jocular note in some My personal interactions with Sir until July, 1975, when ALRC Librari- of his correspondence. For example, Boris extend back to October, 1960, an Joan Salter asked permission to use when reviewing my orthopteran when I wrote him saying that I was figures from some of my publications phylogenetic paper, he supported scheduled to lecture in Valencia, in his posthumous Vol. 2. my conclusion that the mandibles of Spain and he responded, suggesting The lengthy preceding paragraph the fossil Rhyniognatha are insectan that, if at all possible, I go also to indicates at risk of tedium the breadth and not just arthropodan, a position Madrid to work in Eugenio Morales’ of correspondence that Sir Boris, the contested by F.M. Carpenter, the laboratory. In March, 1963, he ac- acknowledged founder of modem ac- American paleoentomologist who was knowledged my papers on feculae and ridology, and I shared, but the reader then the world expert. Sir Boris told periodicity, saying that he had already should remember that I was only one me: “Rest assured, Mr. Gangwere, no inserted mention of both into the of many orthopterists from throughout living authority will ever prove you manuscript of his new book “Grass- the world who consulted with him, wrong.” hoppers and Locusts,” but asked for others possibly in a similar manner clarification of certain portions of my and depth. For my part, I found him to Author’s current mailing address: temperature data. In 1964, I met him be a gracious, soft-spoken, analytical 1301 W. Madison St. Ann Arbor, MI 48103 in person at his ALRC in London, and Eugenio Morales and I lunched with him at that year’s International Congress of Entomology. In March, 1965, he commented on my paper on the alimentary canal, invited me again to his laboratory, and apologized for his inability to send me a presentation copy of his new book, though I hadn’t asked for one. In Jan., 1966, he acknowledged having received my mouthpart reprint but recommended changes in the mouthpart terminol- ogy I had adopted. In March, 1966, he reviewed my biting paper. Then, in October of the same year, after having perused my Tunisian paper (with Erucius sp. (Chorotypidae: Eruciinae) from montane forest in Perak, Malaysia. (photo credit: Morales), he asked for habitat infor- Kurt Orion G, contributed to the Society’s Facebook Page) Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 14 METALEPTEA In Memoriam: Theodore J. Cohn (1930 - 2012) By STAN GANGWERE Professor Emeritus Wayne State University Detroit, MI, USA ith sadness, I ter, but somehow successfully ex- completion of an especially exhaust- report today the ecuted whatever complex study next ing collecting trip to Mexico in pur- demise of friend, garnered his attention. Despite our suit of katydids of the genus Neobar- colleague, and personality differences, we became rettia ( = Rehnia ), he collapsed just Orthopterists’ friends, and he spent many, many as he reached the museum parking lot. WW Society Past hours with me and my wife in our Fortunately, he was one of the lucky President Theodore J. (“Ted”) Cohn Ann Arbor apartment, introducing us, ones who, after months of hospitaliza- who succumbed at the University for example, to lox and bagels and tion, recovered from that debilitating of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, other ethnic food stuff with which disease, though it left a lasting physi- Michigan, on November 25th, 2012 we previously weren’t familiar. Ted’s cal impact on him. Thereafter, he was following a prolonged illness. father had died some years earlier, but frail of body, and his walk took on a Ted was born in New York where his mother, a warm, friendly, down- permanent limp. The second major his father was a highly successful to-earth person, visited him from time event in his life was the introduction attorney, and, as a member of one of to time, on which occasions the four into it of Jean, an incoming ornithol- that community’s prominent families, of us dined together. These were busy, ogy student who was soon to become his early life was one of comparative happy days that we remember fondly. his wife. Ted eventually completed affluence. I’m not sure when and how Soon, however, I completed my doc- his research, received the Ph. D. in Ted first became attracted to insect toral research and departed for Wayne 1961, but remained on campus in study, but during his pursuit of the State University leaving Ted to spread Ann Arbor until, in 1964, he was baccalaureate at Cornell University out in the confines of our once-joint appointed Assistant Professor at San in Ithaca, New York, he became a office. Diego State University. The life of confirmed Orthopterist. Upon gradu- Two momentous events occurred in the happy couple, Ted and Jean, then ating from Cornell in 1952, he joined Ted’s life at about this time. One was took on a familiar pattern. They split the United States Army as a Second his affliction with poliomyelitis. Upon their time, devoting the months of the Lieutenant and served in the Vietnam War. Upon completion of military service, he matriculated at the Univer- sity of Michigan to study under the renowned Professor T. H. Hubbell, who supervised the Insect Division’s orthopteroid collection, one of the largest, most complete assemblages of those insects in the world. As for myself, upon returning from a 10-day southeastern United States collecting trip, I found that I was now sharing the tranquility of my office with a brash, irrepressible, impos- sibly enthusiastic new student; it was Ted! That’s how we met, and we were to be confined together in the same room! Never were two people more unlike than the two of us! I’m perhaps thought of as an over-fastidious “neatwit” (hopefully not nitwit!), as Ted Cohn in Montpellier, 2011 (photo taken from http://140.247.119.225/OrthSoc/galleries/Or- thopterists/orthopterists_6/orts6.html) opposed to Ted who operated in clut-

Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 15 METALEPTEA academic year to San Diego where result was a 1990 paper published honored and that the bequests were Ted advanced steadily through the in the Bol. San. Veg. Plagas 20. He implemented upon his death. Ted ranks until he was appointed Pro- reviewed it and pronounced it as was also a proud sponsor of the San fessor of Biology, but spending the excellent, but declined co-authorship Diego Opera Company, and, through summer months either collecting in saying that he wasn’t comfortable the years, tried never to miss one of Mexico/the western U.S. or working having his name on a work in which that organization’s productions. Not at the museum in Ann Arbor (which he hadn’t participated personally and surprisingly, he intended to make a appointed him Adjunct Professor). that his sole concern lay in furthering generous bequest to it as well. Money At San Diego, he taught the usual our understanding of the biology of aside, those of us belonging to the courses for an insect academician, his beloved katydids. Orthopterists’ Society will miss Ted including general entomology, inver- There is yet another dimension to for his warm, engaging presence, his tebrate zoology, evolution, taxonomy Ted’s life to be mentioned. He came unmatched enthusiasm for everything and systematics, and biogeography. onto the entomological scene from that he did, and for his obvious zest He worked this way until, in 1993, ill a position of comparative wealth for life. He was a fine man whose dis- health forced him to retire from San which, together with shrewd business appearance from the academic scene Diego as Professor Emeritus, where- investments, netted him a more- makes our world a poorer place. May upon he relocated permanently in Ann than-comfortable retirement income, he rest in peace. Arbor. though one would not have known it After that time, declining health, from his casual dress and unassuming * Editor’s note: This obituary was blindness, and, above all, the death of behavior, and Jean, too, came from originally submitted to Metaleptea on Jean in December, 2011, took a toll a well-to-do family from which she April 19, 2013, but its publication was on him, though he persisted in going also inherited. Inasmuch as the two delayed because the last issue was dedicated to the International Con- to the museum almost daily. Fortu- of them had simple interests, lacked gress. I feel that Dr. Gangwere’s con- nately, he was able to complete his children, and had few living relatives, tribution is quite fitting for this issue last major study, a collaborative one money was never a problem for them, in light of his other article as well as on Dichopetala that is now in press. and the only question was what was our announcement of the Ted Cohn Ted’s overall productivity of about a to be done with it upon their demise. Research Fund. Although Metaleptea dozen major publications in over five Ted’s intent was to, therefore, make has already published the obituary of decades of research is, on its face, not bequests to the Theodore J. Cohn Ted Cohn in a previous issue [33(1)], an impressive total, but total is not ev- Foundation in La Mesa, California, I think we can all appreciate Dr. Gan- erything, and who are we to evaluate to Michigan’s Insect Division, and gwere’s unique perspective, which is the merit of his studies? I know that I, to the Orthopterists’ Society. I can why it’s published here. a non-taxonomist, am not competent only assume that these wishes were to do so, but I am aware of the hours and hours of meticulous work that he devoted to everything that he did, of his relentless search for new material, and of the countless revisions that he wrote because he was never satisfied, all of which suggests that his research is of high quality. Perhaps an event of some decades ago will illustrate Ted’s general atti- tude toward research and the compel- ling role it played in his life. For some years he importuned me to redirect my attention, at least temporarily, from the feeding behavior of Iberian orthopteroids to that of his Mexican southwestern United States katydids. I eventually agreed with the stipulation that he would provide an adequate supply of living Neobarrettia to be Pseudophylline nymph (Tettigoniidae) from Borneo. (photo credit: Zestin Soh, contributed to the used in cage experimentation. The Society’s Facebook Page) Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 16 METALEPTEA Treasurer’s Report By PAMM MIHM Treasurer The Statement of As- which operated at a $3,300 deficit in is very important for you to pay your sets as of December 31, 2013. Additionally, the Orthopterists’ membership and publication fees 2013, and Cash Summa- Society received a very generous gift each year. Please watch for a 2014 ry are shown below. The from the Estate of Dr. Theodore Cohn billing in late February or March and largest cash activity was in the initial amount of $400,000 with also please update your information TT in support of the Orthop- more expected to come later. The on the Society website, so that your tera Species File. This is funded by an money has been invested, so that the billing will be accurate. If you have allocation of endowment income from income from the investments can be any questions, you can contact me at the University of Illinois. The second used to fund research grants and assist [email protected]. largest use of cash was publishing with operating expenses. However, the Journal of Orthoptera Research, the Society has a tight budget, so it

Orthopterists’ Society Orthopterists’ Society Statement of Cash Receipts and Expenditures Statement of Assets (1/1/13 through 12/31/13) (As of December 31, 2013)

Cash Receipts Cash Dues $6,935.00 Paypal cash balance $405.28 Publications 7,024.54 Chase Bank 410,773.55 Page charges 2,070.37 Total cash at 12/31/13 411,178.83 Royalty and revenue sharing 15,975.25 1/9/14 Invest proceeds from Other 233.85 T. Cohn’s Estate less $15,000 Donations 10,230.00 working cash (385,000.00) University of Illinois allocation 79,916.00 Cash balance after investing Transfer cash from investments 6,500.00 Cohn’s gift $26,178.83 Proceeds from T. Cohn’s Estate 400,000.00 Interest income certificate of deposit 32.88 Investments at market value Total Cash Receipts $528,917.89 Vanguard: Grants (Note 1) $25,757.61 Cash Expenditures Operating (Note 2) 51,749.42 Publisher JOR $7,413.42 Wells Fargo: JOR assistance 21,000.00 AAAI (Note 3) 10,862.96 Research grants 4,740.00 Endowment (Note 4) 23,023.43 Executive director-remuneration 1,500.00 Operating (Note 2) 8,909.77 Ed. Metaleptea remuneration 500.00 Total investments at 12/31/13 $120,303.19 Webmaster remuneration 300.00 Maintenance of Orthoptera Species File 73,486.56 Investments from Ted Cohn’s gift 1/9/14 Travel-Int’l Congress Orthopterology 10,545.31 Vanguard: Uvarov award 1,500.00 Grants (Note 1) $200,000.00 Shipping books to Brazil 925.25 Operating (Note 2) 185,000.00 Professional fees (income tax preparation) 985.00 Total investments from Ted Other 777.06 Cohn’s gift $385,000.00 Total Cash Expenditures $123,672.60 Total investments after Cohn’s gift $505,303.19 Total assets $531,482.02 Excess of Cash Receipts over Cash Expenditures $405,245.29 Note 1: This fund is restricted and can only be used Beginning Cash Balance 5,933.54 for research grants. Ending Cash Balance 12/31/13 411,178.83 Note 2: This fund is nonrestricted. 1/9/14 Invest proceeds from T. Cohn’s Note 3: This fund can only be used for the Uvarov Estate less $15,000 for working cash (385,000.00) Award made at each int’l meeting. Cash balance after investing Cohn gift $26,178.83 Note 4: The income in this account is available for Society expenses; can extract capital but must have a plan for repaying it within 3 years.

Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 17 METALEPTEA A PHOTO OF THE HORROR

This is a photo of the horror I found hiding within a number of the nymphal members of a population of Melanoplus rotundipennis from a pine flatwoods habitat within Rock Springs Run State Reserve in Central Florida. I brought back quite a few live specimens to observe in the lab and the youngest kept dying suddenly, so I decided to dissect some. This is my first encounter with an internal par- asite (a nematode of some sort, in this case) and, at first, as I peeled back anatomical layers I thought its inner organs were just maturing abnormally. Then, I removed everything and could not believe my eyes! I am not sure if this is a single nematode or multiple ones, but I have no idea how this nymph (or any other) was still functioning. Remarkable and bizarre! Since this realization I have discovered a Editorial please do not hesitate to send me number of cases of this issue in other popula- By HOJUN SONG feedback regarding Metaleptea. I look tions and within other species of the small, Editor, Metaleptea forward to hearing from you soon! brachypterous group with which I work: the hanks to all of you who Puer Group. (Photo credit: Derek A. Woller) have contributed to Metaleptea, this issue Officers of the Orthopterists’ Society turned out to be a fine- looking piece. I would President: Michael Samways, Department of Conservation Ecology TT like to especially thank & Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa. Dr. Stan Gangwere for his wonderful [email protected] stories about the giants in our field. President-Elect: Alexandre Latchininsky, Department of Ecosystem Science It is very important to archive these and Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA. stories for our future generations. [email protected] I would also like to thank those who Executive Director: David Hunter, Locust and Grasshopper Control, allowed me to use their wonderful 125 William Webb Drive, McKellar ACT 2617 Australia. images. Many of them were posted in [email protected] our Facebook page and I must say that Treasurer: Pamm Mihm, 2417 Fields South Drive, Champaign, IL 61822 the quality of these macro photos of USA. [email protected]. our favorite creatures is outstanding! I Managing Editor JOR: Sam Heads, Illinois Natural History Survey, would like to highlight these talents in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. the upcoming issues. [email protected] Also, I cannot do this job without Editorial Assistant JOR: Nancy Morris, Department of Biology, University the help of our associate editor, Derek of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada. A. Woller, so thank you, Derek! [email protected] To be published in Metaleptea, Manager Orthopterists’ Society Website: Piotr Naskrecki, Museum of please send me any articles, photo- Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. graphs, or anything related to Orthop- [email protected] tera at [email protected] with a subject Associate Manager OS Website: David C.F. Rentz, 19 Butler Dr., Kuranda, line starting with [Metaleptea]. I am Queensland, Australia. [email protected] always especially interested in receiv- Editor Metaleptea: Hojun Song, Department of Biology, University of ing for regional reports and OS grant Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. [email protected] reports. As for the format, a MS Word Associate Editor Metaleptea: Derek A. Woller, Department of Biology, document is preferred and images University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. [email protected] should be in JPEG or TIFF format Orthoptera Species File Officer: María Marta Cigliano, División with a resolution of at least 144 DPI. Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, The next issue of Metaleptea will La Plata, Argentina. [email protected] be published in May 2014, so please The Ted Cohn Research Fund Manager: Michel Lecoq, CIRAD, France. send me content promptly. Also, [email protected] Volume 34 (1) / January 2014 18