Daniel Otte
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
Daniel Otte, PhD is currently senior curator in the Division of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology at the Academy of Natural Sciences. He was a postdoctoral fellow of Richard Alexander, PhD of the University of Michigan for 15 months in Australia (1968-1969). He served as assistant professor of Zoology at the University of Texas at Austin from 1969 to 1975. He served as Associate Curator of Entomology from 1975 to 1980 and as Senior Curator of Entomology from 1980 to the present.
Research Interest
Taxonomy and biogeography of Orthoptera, particularly grasshoppers and crickets; origin of species
Publications
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1984. The North American Grasshoppers. Vol. 2. Oedipodinae. Harvard University Press. 366 pp.
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1994. The Crickets of Hawaii: Origin, Systematics and Evolution. Academy of Natural Sciences. 400 pp.
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2009. Crickets of the Caribbean (D. Otte and D. Perez-Gelabert). Publications on Orthopteran Diversity. The Orthopterists Society. 792 pp
