What is Grasshopper?
Systematic position:
Phylum : Arthropoda
Class : Insecta
Order : Othroptera
Genus : Poecilocerus
- Grasshopper are worldwide distribution so called cosmopoliten.
- It is terrestrial, gregarious grasshopper commonly found on the AK plants , so is also called AK Grasshopper.
- It is diurnal insect.
- It is shows two type of locomotion : jumping and flying with the help of hind wings.
- It is herbivorous and a voracious feeder of AK leaves with the help of biting and chewing type mouth parts.
- It is unisexual and dioecious and show sexual dimorphism.
- Male is smaller in size.
- Female is oviparous and development inclues gradual metamorphosis.
- Grasshopper shows tracheal respiration.
- Grasshopper has an narrow, elongeted, cylindrical body with bilateral symmetry.
Grasshopper
