Here he is with our CEO and Founder, Prof Lyubomir Penev.

𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ editor and author Dr Axel Hochkirch spoke earlier today at the #IUCNCongress in Abu Dhabi.

If you're there, head to Pensoft's booth (229) to learn more about our journal!

Researchers investigated the wear of tympanal organs in females of Gryllus (Gryllus) assimilis: doi.org/10.3897/jor....

#animalbehaviour #Orthoptera #insects

The praying mantis 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑎 is reported from the first time from the Galápagos Islands. This is the second mantodean species reported from the archipelago.

Find out more here: doi.org/10.3897/jor....

Description the calling songs and duets of two new bush cricket species in the rotundifolia complex of Amblycorypha: doi.org/10.3897/jor....

#crypticspecies #newspecies #Orthoptera

A study on the orthopteran assemblages of riparian grassland in fenced beaver enclosures at Spains Hall, UK two summers after reintroduction: doi.org/10.3897/jor....

#crickets #grasshoppers #rewilding

Social media and citizen science platforms can be central in the early detection of invasive/alien species - as has been the case with the spread in Europe of the Egyptian Praying Mantis and the European Dwarf Mantis: doi.org/10.3897/jor....

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First observations of myrmecophilous ant cricket Myrmecophilus acervorum and the family Myrmecophilidae from Latvia: doi.org/10.3897/jor....

#crickets #fauna #Orthoptera #bugsky

This elusive grasshopper went undetected for so long that scientists thought it was extinct! Now, researchers have seen it for the first time in 40 years and know more about how it has survived climate pressures for so long.

Story on the @pensoft.net blog: tinyurl.com/mrxbft8r

The fossil grasshopper Burmeumastax lexiae is the 14th member of the superfamily Eumastacoidea known from fossil material and only the third to predate the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Find out more about it here: doi.org/10.3897/jor....
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