Maspalomas bow-legged grasshopper

{{short description|Species of grasshopper}}

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| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Hochkirch, A. |author2=López, H. |date=2016 |title=Dericorys minutus |volume=2016 |page=e.T51269274A74251730 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T51269274A74251730.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| image = Dericorys minutus, Las Palmas, Canary Islands 1.jpg

| image_caption =

| genus = Dericorys

| species = minutus

| authority = (Chopard, 1954)

}}

The Maspalomas bow-legged grasshopper (Dericorys minutus) is a species of grasshopper of the family Acrididae. The species was once thought to be endemic to the town of Maspalomas on Gran Canaria Island but a second population was found in the north of Gran Canaria. The species hasn't been found around Maspalomas since 1949. It is considered Critically endangered, or almost extinct.

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