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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2000 | Volume: 3 | Issue: 6 | Page No.: 1069-1072
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2000.1069.1072
Taxonomic Studies of the Subfamilies Tropidopolinae and Truxalinae (Acrididae: Orthoptera) from Pakistan
Anjum Suhail, Hammad A. Khan, U. Naeem-Ullah and M. Jalal Arif

Abstract: This study included, six grasshoppers species belonging to the subfamilies Tropidopdinae and Truxalinae have been collected from various localities of Pakistan and identified up to species level. The speies Tristria pulvinata Uvarov has been recorded for the first time for this country, while the new locality records have been given for the species viz., Tristria pulvinata Uvarov, Tropidopola cylindrica Iranica Uvarov, Tropidopola congicornis graeca Uvarov, Truxalis grandis fitzgeraldi Dirsh, T. nasuta (Linnaeus) and T. axima axima Eichwala. Measurements of various body parts, habitat and distribution of each species are also given in this paper.

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Anjum Suhail, Hammad A. Khan, U. Naeem-Ullah and M. Jalal Arif, 2000. Taxonomic Studies of the Subfamilies Tropidopolinae and Truxalinae (Acrididae: Orthoptera) from Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 3: 1069-1072.

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