{"id":9851,"date":"2014-05-08T11:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2016-12-01T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:38:11","slug":"grammy-winning-grasshopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/grammy-winning-grasshopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Winning Grasshopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story_feat_img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/today.ucf.edu\/files\/2014\/05\/grasshopperstudents-412x396.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/today.ucf.edu\/files\/2014\/05\/grasshopperstudents-412x396.jpg\" alt=\"New Grasshopper Species Named After Grammy Winner\" width=\"223\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>A newly discovered grasshopper by UCF scientists now bears the name of Grammy-award winning singer and activist Ana Lila Downs Sanchez.The scientists named the new species discovered on the side of a mountain road near Oaxaca, Mexico, after the Mexican-American singer as a nod to her efforts to preserve indigenous culture and penchant for wearing colorful, local costumes as part of her performances.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was primarily Paolo\u2019s idea to name the grasshopper after the singer\u201d said Derek Woller, one of the authors of the paper referring to colleague Paolo Fontana. \u201cHe\u2019s a big fan of Lila Downs (her stage name). The grasshopper is so beautiful, so vibrant and colorful. When he told us all about her, her work, her colorful clothes, and that she was born in the region where we found the specimens, we thought, yeah, that\u2019s great, let\u2019s do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grasshopper measures about an inch long on average and resembles a fiery rainbow with blue, red, yellow, orange and black markings. \u00a0The first pictures of the new species make their debut in an article in this month\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapress.com\/zootaxa\/2014\/f\/zt03793p495.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Zootaxa journal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woller, Fontana, Ricardo Mari\u00f1o-P\u00e9rez and Hojun Song are the authors of the paper. Woller is a Ph.D. candidate and Mari\u00f1o-P\u00e9rez is a Ph.D. student in Biology Professor Song\u2019s lab while Fontana is a researcher at the Edmund Mach Foundation in Pergine Valsugana, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The men were doing fieldwork for another grasshopper study in a pine-oak forest of the Sierra Madre del Sur Mountain Range in Oaxaca, Mexico, when they came across their discovery in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were surprised that a grasshopper of that size and found next to the road wasn\u2019t discovered before,\u201d Mari\u00f1o-P\u00e9rez said.<\/p>\n<p>The team did some research, returned again in 2013 to see if they could find more grasshoppers and then submitted their work to the journal after confirming three known small populations of the creatures.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 9,700 known species of grasshoppers in the world. UCF houses many examples in its Bug Closet, which now also contains the Lila Downs friar grasshopper.<\/p>\n<p>Locals called the creature the friar grasshopper because its head looks a bit like what a monk with his hood pulled back might look like. In Spanish \u201cfriale\u201d means friar. That\u2019s why the full scientific name of the grasshopper is Liladownsia fraile.<\/p>\n<p>For the UCF team, it was important to recognize Mexico in naming the species. Downs \u00a0is known for her contributions to the music industry through her traditional fashion, which is primarily based on Mexico\u2019s indigenous communities, cultures and heritages. Her music has earned her a Grammy Award and two Latin Grammy Awards. She\u2019s active with various humanitarian causes especially those related to Latin America\u2019s indigenous communities. But most young music fans may recognize her because she was a featured artist on Carlos Santana\u2019s \u201cCorazon\u201d album with Gloria Estefan, Ziggy Marley, Wayne Shorter and others released earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.ucf.edu\/files\/2014\/05\/Female-grasshopper-e1399555250171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-59165 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/today.ucf.edu\/files\/2014\/05\/Female-grasshopper-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Female grasshopper\" width=\"201\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>The team\u2019s journal article includes a paragraph giving Lila Downs kudos for her work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis taxon is dedicated to (Lila Downs) for a number of reasons, such as the fact that she was born in the vicinity of the type locality and because she incorporates several indigenous tongues from Mexico into her musical style, including Mixteco and Zapoteco (the latter of which is spoken in the type locality). Additionally, Lila Downs has not only promoted the vast cultural diversity of Mexico worldwide via her music, but also through the use of bright colors, a staple of Mexican culture, and considering that this new genus is brightly colored, we would like to recognize her efforts through the dedication of this new genus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mari\u00f1o-P\u00e9rez said the discovery of the grasshopper is an important reminder to all of us to be mindful of the way we use our planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a era of biodiversity crisis,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery day\u00a0species are disappearing, in some cases even before being discovered. This discovery is a reminder that new species are not only in the middle of the Amazon or in the deep forests of Africa but also next to the road in a more or less populated area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To assist in supporting the conservation cause, this unique grasshopper species has been placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature\u2019s new Red List of threatened species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered grasshopper by UCF scientists now bears the name of Grammy-award winning singer and activist Ana Lila Downs Sanchez.The scientists named the new species discovered on the side of a mountain road near Oaxaca, Mexico, after the Mexican-American singer as a nod to her efforts to preserve indigenous culture and penchant for wearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,38,13,28,29],"tags":[236,437,510,1484,1554,2074,2075,2458,3457,3485,3949],"class_list":["post-9851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology-departments","category-breaking-news","category-news","category-top-news","category-ucf-news","tag-ana-lila-downs","tag-biology","tag-bug-closet","tag-grammy","tag-hojun-song","tag-lila-downs","tag-liladownsia-fraile","tag-new-grasshopper-species","tag-ucf","tag-ucf-biology","tag-zootaxa-journal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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