Critically Endangered
Maspalomas bow-legged grasshopper
Dericorys minutus
Maspalomas bow-legged grasshopper is a grasshopper or katydid in the family Dericorythidae (order Orthoptera) — Dericorys minutus, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The grasshopper or katydid
Grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets hear and sing. A species may be diagnosed by the song or by a mountain valley.
An insect has six legs and, in winged forms, one or two pairs of wings. Most named species in this catalog are known from a type series and a locality, not from a popular field guide.
Range and habitat
The species was once thought to be endemic to the town of Maspalomas on Gran Canaria Island but a second population was found in the north of Gran Canaria. The species hasn't been found around Maspalomas since 1949.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Life history
Song, season, and a named mountain are how many of these insects were split. A silent valley after fire is an empty record.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
It is considered Critically endangered, or almost extinct.
Maspalomas bow-legged grasshopper is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Maspalomas bow-legged grasshopper — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q10469418. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
