OBSERVATIONS ON FOOD HABITS AND FEEDING BEHAVIOUR IN SOME ACRIDIDAE OF JAMSHORO

Abstract

The food habits and feeding behaviour of 7 species of Acrididae are studied. The mouthparts of Dericorys tibialis (Pallas) of Dericorythinae, Mioscirtus wagneri rogenhoferi (Saussure) of Locustinae and Hetracris adspersa of Eyprepoenemidinae are of forbivorous type while those of Sphingonotus rubescens rubescens (walker) of Locustinae. Eyprepocnemis alacris alacris (Audinet-Serville) and Choroedocus robustus (Audinet-Serville) are of herbivorous type whereas those of Ochrilidia geniculata (Bolivar) of Gomphocerinae is of graminivorous type.