DIVERSITY OF ORTHOPTERA FAUNA OF SAGAR DISTRICT, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA

Abstract

Phylum Uniramia of the Animal Kindom includes orthopteroid insect more than 27,000 species 
were distributed worldwide. Orthopteriod insects are an essential component of the fauna of 
many ecosystems in particular grasslands. The actual reports of this Insects in the Sagar region 
of Madhya Pradesh in not clearly investigated. In the present study we are reported the first time 
survey and collection of insects in Pathariya hill complex forests of Sagar district of Madhya 
Pradesh, (INDIA) in the year 2017-18. The collection methods including trapping, aerial nets, 
hand picking, sweeping and beating. The preserved samples were identified with various earlier 
publications and also with the help of identification keys. There were 32 species of grasshoppers 
found at the study site. The grasshopper community was further divided into four categories on 
the basis of its occurrence in the different ecological niches of the study site. These were open 
ground type, field type, scrub type and woodland type.