New Record of Seven Species of Short-Horned Grasshoppers and Ground Hoppers (Orthoptera: Insecta) from Chhattisgarh, India

Abstract

The present paper reports new record of seven species of Orthoptera viz. Gerenia selangorensis Miller, Coptacra tuberculata Ramme, Pternoscirta pulchripes Uvarov, Pyrgomorpha (Pyrgomorpha) conica tereticornis (Brulle), Pyrgomorpha (Pyrgomorpha) conica fusca (Beauvois), Hedotettix rusticus Bolivar and Hedotettix angustatus Hancock from India. The systematic account, details of material collected, co-ordinates and geographic distribution and map of all these species in Chhattisgarh are incorporated. A brief note on zoogeography is given.