Abstract
The silver staining technique was employed to locate Nucleolar Organiser Regions (NORs) in six species of grasshoppers viz. Aiolopus thalassinus F. (Tryxalinae); Oeodaleus abruptus Thunb., Gastrimargus transversus Thunb., Heteropternis respondens Walk. (Oedipodinae); Parahieroglyphus biliniatus Bol. and Spathosternum prasiniferum Walk. (Catantopinae). Usually the NORs were located on the larger elements of the chromosomal complement. However, in O. abruptus NORs were found on autosomes S8 and S9. The salient observations were: (1) NORs were seen in only a few of the several spermatogonial metaphases examined; (2) Active NORs were mostly located either on one chromatid of the homologues or on the homologue depicting heteromorphism; (3) NORs showed either proximal, subproximal or interstitial locations. However, in O. abruptus and P. bilineatus NORs were located at two positions. Distribution of NORs in different species and their probable role in tracing the evolutionary pathways in Acridoidea are discussed.
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