Daniel Otte (born March 14, 1939, South Africa) is a South African-American ecologist, entomologist, world expert on crickets and grasshoppers and prominent scientific illustrator. He has made significant contributions to evolutionary biology.[1] He is curator and chairman of the Department of Entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.[2]
Otte was born and educated in South Africa and began his career at the University of Delaware.[citation needed]