Diversity of Grasshopper (Insect: Orthoptera) Fauna of Uregi And Dobha Villages in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India

Abstract

This paper presents the distributional record of the of grasshopper fauna of Uregi and Dobha villages in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. A total of 18 species of grasshoppers belonging to 3 families and 17 genera were recorded during this study. Acrididae was the dominant family with 15 species and the other minor families were Tettigoniidae with 2 species and pyrgomorphidae with 1 species. This habitat was studied for the first time and a maximum number of the grasshoppers were recorded in Uregi village as compared to the Dobha village.