Endangered
Lila Downs' Friar Grasshopper
Liladownsia fraile
Lila Downs' Friar Grasshopper is a grasshopper in the family Acrididae (order Orthoptera) — Liladownsia fraile, recorded as Endangered and tied to Mexico.
Appearance
Woller, Paolo Fontana, Ricardo Mariño-Pérez, and Hojun Song. It was scientifically named in honor of the Mexican singer and activist Ana Lila Downs Sánchez (Lila Downs) in recognition, not only of her efforts to preserve indigenous culture, and that this grasshopper shows great aposematism to warn birds of its toxicity, that also served to pay tribute to the original and colorful clothing that is part of the singer's performances, but also that these specimens were found in the same region where Lila Downs and Paolo Fontana were born.
Range and habitat
It was discovered in May 2014 in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range, Oaxaca, Mexico, by American entomologists from the University of Florida. It is found mainly in the pine and oak forests of the Sierra Madre del Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico.
GBIF currently lists 86 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
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 endangered by the International Union for of Nature (in English: International Union for of Nature) or IUCN.
Lila Downs' Friar Grasshopper is 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 Spanish Wikipedia article on Liladownsia fraile, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q17633474 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
