ORTHOPTERA, , (Joern and Rudd, 1982

Mitra, Bulganin, Shah, Suresh Kumar & Mishra, Purnendu, 2018, Insect Fauna associated with the Tea Ecosystem of North Bengal, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (2), pp. 178-178 : 178-

Order ORTHOPTERA

The insects under order Orthoptera are popularly known as grasshoppers, crickets etc. These insects inhabit many variety of habitats, like open grasslands, gardens, pastures, agro-fields, swamps and rain forests etc. Present communication reports 06 species under 06 genera belonging to03families of Orthoptera from the tea gardens of North Bengal ( Table 8). Of them, Tettigonidae shares highest number of species (04) followed by Gryllidae and Pyrgomorphidae one species each. Nath et al., (2009) has been detected Atractomorpha crenulata (Fabricius, 1793) as possible pest of tea plant and other crops. Present communication reports only four orthopteran species (*) as pest of tea plant from North Bengal ( Table 8).

plants of North Bengal

No. Species

Family TETTIGONIDAE

1* Holochlora indica (Kirby, 1906)

2 Ducetia japonica (Thunberg, 1815)

3 Euconocephalus pallidus (Redtenbacher, 1891)

4* Mecopoda elongata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Family GRYLLIDAE

5* Tarbinskiellus orientalis (Fabricius, 1775)

Family PYRGOMORPHIDAE

6* Atractomorpha crenulata (Fabricius, 1793)