Eyprepocprifas insularis Donskoff, 1982
Monte Gordo grasshopper
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: October 1980 (Donskoff, 1982:348; Felix et al., 2025)
Rediscovered between: 23-28 January 2023 (Felix et al., 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
São Nicolau, Cape Verde Islands, Macaronesia
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Donskoff, Michel. (1982). Un Acridien nouveau des Iles du Cap Vert: Eyprepocprifas insularis n. gen. et n. sp. [Orth. Acrididae]. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 87: 345-349. https://doi.org/10.3406/bsef.1982.18052
Other references:
Báez, M. and Oromí, P. (2005). Arthropoda, pp. 60-100. In: Arechavaleta, M., Zurita, N., Marrero, M. C. and Martín, J. L. (eds.). (2005). Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde Hongos, Plantas y Animals Terrestres) 2005. Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, Gobiemo de Canarias. 155 pp.
Felix, Rob, Jacobs, Annelies and Lecoq, Michel. (2025). Rediscovery of the Monte Gordo Grasshopper Eyprepocprifas insularis: An ancient brachypterous species endemic to São Nicolau, Cape Verde (Orthoptera, Eyprepocnemidinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research 34(2): 159-168. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.34.144016
Fernández-Palacios, José María, Fructuoso, Melania, Illera, Juan Carlos, Rando, Juan Carlos, de Nascimento, Lea, Fernández-Palacios, Enrique, Patiño, Jairo, Otto, Rüdiger, Castilla-Beltrán, Álvaro, González, Esther Martín, Orihuela-Rivero, Raúl, Alcover, Josep Antoni, Whittaker, Robert J. (2025). A synthesis of terrestrial species extinctions in the Macaronesian Islands and their correspondence with human occupancy. PNAS Nexus 4(8): pgaf215. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf215 [Supplementary data (.docx)]
Lecoq, M. (1996). Primeira lista vermelha para os Acrídeos (lnsecta: Saltatoria). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 191: 87-88.
Otte, D. 1995. Orthoptera Species File 4:181.
Yin, X.-C., J. Shi & Z. Yin. 1996. Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera) 290