Invasive Pest Webinar Series 4

The entomological collection at the University of Idaho, initiated by John M. Aldrich in 1893, has grown to over one million pinned specimens under the care of William F. Barr, a reputed expert of Buprestidae and Cleridae, two families well represented among the museum holdings. Another major collecting focus by Bill Barr and his students was of rangeland insects that yielded, among others, over 20,000 grasshopper specimens. Label data from museum specimens has been captured and georeferenced and the data made publicly available for over 75,000 specimens in the Barr Museum since digitization was initiated in 2016. As a result, we started compiling and publishing checklists of the insects of Idaho, enhanced with specimen-based distribution maps and user-friendly keys to species, as done for the Tabanidae and Buprestidae of Idaho in recent years. We present our current effort to compile the checklist and a key to the species of band-winged grasshoppers (Acrididae: Oediponinae) of Idaho.

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