The principal goal of my project was to collect grasshoppers residing on the balds of Great Smoky

Mountains, and to focus on the flightless species which might have speciated in this region. The taxonomy of the flightless grasshoppers in the eastern mountains of the United States is unstable and it has taken a thorough study of all of the eastern species to ascertain what species occurr in GSM.

In this project I collected on GSM balds and on a number of balds surrounding the park, as well as areas more remotely separated from the park (in Virginia and West Virginia).

Principal Investigator

PI Name:  Dr. Daniel Otte

PI Organization:  Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences

Primary Taxonomist

Taxonomist Name:  Dr. Daniel Otte

Taxonomist Organization:  Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences

Literature References: 

Dr. Otte's online Orthoptera species pages: http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Orthoptera/HomePage.aspx