Trends in Biosciences
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 23

A checklist of acrididae (orthoptera: Acridoidea) from Jammu and Kashmir, India

  • Author:
  • Hirdesh Kumar1,, Shahnila Usmani2, Mohd. Kamil Usmani2
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 6541 to 6546

1NCIPM - ICAR, LBS Building, Pusa Campus, New Delhi-110012, India

2Section of Entomology, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002

*email: entomologist1985@gmail.com

Online published on 22 September, 2017.

Abstract

Acrididae is the most important family of Orthoptera because majority of the locust species belongs to it. A survey of Acridid fauna of Jammu and Kashmir State, India was carried out during the period from 2009 to 2012. The collected materials include eight subfamilies having twenty three genera and thirty two species. Out of which two subfamilies, nine genera and nineteen species are reported first time from this region.

Keywords

Checklist, Acrididae, Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Jammu and Kashmir