Episode Details

Palma Stick Grasshopper :: Acrostira euphorbiae

Bad at Goodbyes :: Episode 015

On today’s show we learn about the Palma Stick Grasshopper, a critically endangered insect native to the Canary Islands, off the Northwest coast of Africa.

• (00:05) Intro
• (02:05) Species Information
• (22:59) Citations
• (24:28) Music
• (29:04) Pledge

Research for today’s show was compiled from

• Sound recordings by Heriberto López from the Orthoptera Species File Online – http://orthoptera.archive.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1116906 
• American Museum of Natural History – https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/biodiversity-counts/arthropod-identification/arthropod-morphology/front-view-of-an-insect-grasshopper-head 
• Bulletin of Entomological Research, Volume 97, Issue 2 – https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485307004828 
• Conservation Genetics vol 8, issue 3 – https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-006-9199-5 
• Group of Entomological Research from Tenerife – https://www.speciesconservation.org/case-studies-projects/la-palma-stick-grasshopper/10202 
• IUCN – https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/15038553/175765678
• Journal of Zoology. Volume 275 issue 1– https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00394.x 
• Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales of Spain – https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/174040 
• Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphagidae

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