Abstract

The Order Orthoptera includes short horned and long horned grasshoppers, crickets and grouse locusts. These insects range from sizes less than 5 mm to 115 mm. They are distributed worldwide and mainly in warmer regions and are in the temperate zone. They are found in all terrestrial habitats from subterranean burrows and caves to tree tops, and from dense forest to savanna and deserts. Most of them are phytophagus. The order Orthoptera is one of the largest having over 20,000 species worldwide with about 10% of the total world species (1,750 species) recorded from India (Hirdesh Kumar and Mohd. Kamil Usmani, 2014). The paper presents the checklist and diagnostic characters of orthoptera of Kanchipuram district along with their known distribution which includes 12 species/subspecies of belonging to 9 genera under 2 Suborder, 3 Superfamilies, 3 families and 7 subfamilies.

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