India has the world's largest area under rice cultivation and Uttar Pradesh is one of the chief rice producing states. During surveys of paddy fields in Uttar Pradesh, 21 species of grasshoppers representing 14 genera of Family Acrididae, belonging to 7 subfamilies, were recorded in 2010, 2011, and 2012. A maximum number of seven species represented the subfamily Oedipodinae, followed by Oxyinae with five species and one subspecies, Acridinae with three species, Hemiacridinae and Catantopinae with two species each, and Spathosterninae and Eyprepocnemidinae with one species each.