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The Orthopterists' Society's Orthoptera Database Committee works in cooperation with the Illinois Natural History Survey.

The Orthoptera Database Committee members are:

  • María Marta Cigliano (send mail), Division Entomologia, Museo de la Plata, Paseo del Bosque S/N, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
  • Ted Cohn (send mail), Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  • David Eades (send mail), Illinois Natural History Survey, 1816 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
  • Sigfrid Ingrisch (send mail), Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
  • Michel Lecoq (send mail), CIRAD, Département amis Acridologie opérationnelle (Prifas), TA40/D, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
  • Piotr Naskrecki (send mail), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
  • Daniel Otte (send mail), Academy of Natural Sciences,1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
  • David Rentz (send mail), CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Canberra, Australia
  • Hugh Rowell (send mail), Chalet Oreïna, 3961 Ayer, Switzerland

Committee members are appointed by the President of the Orthopterists' Society.  The responsibilities of the committee are:

  • To advise on design of database and priorities for tasks.
  • To grant awards from the endowment.
  • To review proposed changes to higher ranks within the database.  This has been proposed, but there is no current consensus that this should be a committee responsibility.