Biological Forum – An International Journal, 1(1): 69-74 (2009) On a collection of Orthoptera fauna from Veerangana Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh, India Kailash Chandra and Sunil Kumar Gupta Zoological Survey of India, Jabalpur (M.P.) ABSTRACT The paper deals with the collection of Orthoptera of Veerangana Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh, which includes the study of 18 species pertaining to 18 genera under 6 families. Keywords: Orthoptera, Veerangana Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh INTRODUCTION Veerangana Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary by the survey team of Zoological Survey of India, Veerangana Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary Jabalpur.The systematic account, details of (VDWLS) is situated in Damoh district of material collected, and their geographic Madhya Pradesh. The area of the sanctuary is distribution are also incorporated. 24 sq. km., which lies between latitudes 23º 30´ to 23º 35´ N and longitudes 79º 40´ to 79º SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT 50´ E. The area is situated on both sides of Jabalpur-Damoh State highway. The Order : Orthoptera Sanctuary has a variety of natural assets and Suborder : Ensifera wonderful settings of Archeological Superfamily : Tettigonioidea monuments of Singoragarh. The vegetation of Family : Tettigoniidae the sanctuary area is mainly tropical mixed dry Subfamily : Phaneropterinae deciduous forest. The most common species Genus : Letana Walker, 1869 are Bija (Pterocarpus marsupium), Saja (Terminalia alata), Tendu (Pterocarpus Letana intermedia Ingrisch, 1990 marsupium) Dhaora (Anogeisus latifolia), Mahua (Madhuca indica), Palas (Butea 1990. Letana intermedia Ingrisch, Ent. Scand., monosperma) and Lendia (Lagerstroemia 21(3): 260. parviflora). 2005. Letana intermedia : Kulkarni and Shishodia, A stray account of Orthoptera fauna of Conservation Area Series 24 : Fauna of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Zool. Surv. India, : Madhya Pradesh has been done by Kirby 321. (1914), Hancock (1915), Chopard (1969), Tandon et. al. (1976, 1995), Roonwal (1981), Material examined : Damoh, Veerangana Shishodia (1988,1991,1999,2006), Chandra Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary (VDWLS); Dani (2003), Joshi et. al. (2004), Gupta (2008). Tal, 20.i.09 (3♂), coll. J. Thilak. Recently, Chandra et al. (2007) reported 139 species of Orthoptera from Madhya Pradesh Distribution : India: Chhattisgarh, Madhya and Chhattisgarh, of which 94 species are Pradesh ( Damoh), Delhi and Maharashtra. found in Madhya Pradesh. During the recent survey in 2009, total Genus : Phaneroptera Serville, 1831 18 species pertaining to 18 genera under 6 families viz. Tettigoniidae (03), Gryllidae Phaneroptera sp. (01), Trigonidiidae (01), Acrididae (11), 1831. Phaneroptera Serville, Ann. Sci. nat., 22 : Pyrgomorphidae (01) and Tridactylidae (01) 158. were collected from different localities of Kailash Chandra and Sunil Kumar Gupta 70 1956. Phaneroptera : Ragge, Proc. zool. Soc. 1964. Teleogryllus mitratus : Randell, Can. Ent., Lond., 127 : 211. 96 (12) : 1596. 2000d. Phaneroptera, Shishodia, Rec. zool. Surv. 1993. Teleogryllus mitratus, Vasanth, Rec. zool. India, 98(3) : 8. Surv. India, Occ. Pap. No. 132 : 77. Material examined : Damoh, VDWLS , Dani Material examined : Damoh, VDWLS , Dani Tal, 01.ii.09 (2♂), coll. K. Chandra. Tal, 20.i.09 (2♀),coll. J. Thilak. Distribution : India : Arunachal Pradesh, Distribution : India : Andaman & Nicobar Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh (Chhindwara, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Damoh and Seoni), Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (Chhindwara, Damoh, Mandla, and Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Africa, Seoni), Manipur, Meghalaya, Orissa, Sikkim, Australia, China, Europe, Indo-China, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Malaysia, Myanmar, Solomon Islands, Elsewhere : Bhutan, Borneo, China, Sulawesi, Sumatra and Thailand. Indochina, Indonesia, Japan, Malaya Archipelago, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Subfamily : Conocephalinae Pinang, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Genus : Conocephalus Thunberg, 1815 Tenasserin, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam. Conocephalus maculatus (Le Guillou, 1841) Family : Trigonidiidae 1841. Xiphidion maculatum Le Guillou, Revue. Genus : Trigonidium Rambur, 1839 suissue Zool., 4 : 294. 1922. Conocephalus (Xiphidion) maculatus (Le Trigonidium sp. guillou), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1839. Trigonidium Rambur, Faune Andal., 2 :31. 74 : 243. 1968. Trigonidium, Chopard, Orth. Cat., 12 : 340. 1980. Conocephalus maculatus, Pitkin, Bull. Br. 1969.Trigonidium, Chopard, Fauna of India, Orth., Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), 41(5) : 344. 2 Grylloidea, : 303. Material examined : Damoh, VDWLS , Dani Material examined : Damoh, Veerangana Tal, 20.i.09 (1♀); Bhaisa ghat, 21..i.09 (3♂, Durgavati WLS; Dani Tal, 20.i.09 (1ex.), coll. 1♀), coll. J. Thilak. J. Thilak. Distribution: India: Andaman & Nicobar Distribution : India : Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, (Chhindwara, Damoh and Seoni), Manipur, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh (Chhindwara, Mizoram, Orissa, Sikkim, Tripura, Tamil Damoh and Seoni), Manipur, Meghalaya, Nadu and West Bengal. Elsewhere : Africa, Mizoram, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Tripura and Australia, Hong-Kong, Indonesia, Java, New West Bengal. Elsewhere: Africa, Australia, Guinea, Nepal, Papua, Philippines, Singapore Myanmar, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nepal, New and Sulawesi. Zealand, South Europe and Sri Lanka. Superfamily : Grylloidea Family : Gryllidae Suborder : Caelifera Subfamily : Gryllinae Superfamily : Acridoidea Genus : Teleogryllus Chopard, 1961 Family : Acrididae Subfamily : Gomphocerinae Teleogryllus mitratus (Burmeister, 1838) Genus : Dnopherula Karsch, 1896 1838. Gryllus mitratus Burmeister, Handb. Ent., 2 : 734. 71 Biological Forum – An International Journal, 1(1): 69-74 (2009) Dnopherula (Aulacobothrus) sp. Subfamily Oedipodinae 1896. Dnopherula Karsch, Ent. Zeit. Stettin.57: Genus Aiolopus Fieber, 1853 259. 1902. Aulacobothrus Bolivar, Annls. Soc. ent. Aiolopus thalassinus tamulus (Fabricius, Fr.,70 : 57. 1798) 1971. Dnopherula (Aulacobothrus): Jago, Proc. 1798. Gryllus tamulus Fabricius, Ent. Sys. Suppl., : Acad. Sci. nat. Philad., 123(8) : 245-246. 195. 1838. Gomphocerus tricoloripes Burmeister, Material examined : Damoh, VDWLS , Handb. Ent., 2 : 649. Bhaisa ghat, 21.i.09 (1♀) coll. J. Thilak; 1888. Epacromia rufostriatus Kirby, Proc. zool. 01.ii.09 (1♂, 3♀), coll. K. Chandra. Soc. Lond., : 550. 1914. Aeolopus tamulus, Kirby, Fauna Brit. India, Distribution : India : Assam, Bihar, Orth.,:121. Chhaittisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal 1968. Aiolopus thalasssinus tamulus : Hollis, Bull. Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), 22(7): 347-350. Madhya Pradesh (Chhindwara, Damoh, Mandla, Sahdol and Seoni), Maharashtra, Material examined : Damoh, VDWLS , Dani Meghalaya, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Tal, 20.i.09 (1♂,1♀), coll. J. Thilak. Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere : Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and South Distribution : India : Andaman & Nicobar America. Islands, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Subfamily Acridinae Pradesh (Chhindwara, Damoh, Mandla, Rewa Genus Acrida Linnaeus, 1758 and Seoni), Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Acrida exaltata (Walker, 1859) Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh 1859. Truxalis exaltata Walker, Ann. Mag. nat. and West Bengal. Elsewhere : Australia, Hist., 4 (3): 222. Bangladesh, Borneo, Brunei, China, Hainan, 1914. Acrida exaltata, Kirby, Fauna Brit. India, Hong Kong, Java, Lombok, Malaya, Orth. : 99. Myanmar, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, 1954. Acrida exaltata, Dirsh, Bull. Soc. Found. Papua, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Ent., 38 : 149. Sumatra, Taiwan, Timor and Thailand. 2000. Acrida exaltata, Shishodia, Rec. zool. Surv. India, 98(1) : 46. Genus Gastrimargus Saussure, 1884 Material examined : Damoh, VDWLS ; Dani Tal, 20.i.09 (1♀),coll. J. Thilak. Gastrimargus africanus africanus (Saussure, 1888) Distribution : India : Andhra Pradesh, 1888. Oedaleus (Gastrimargus) marmoratus var. africanus Saussure, Mem. Soc. Phys. nat. Hist. Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Geneva, 30 (1) : 39. Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, 1910. Gastrimargus africanus : Kirby, Syn. Cat. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Orth., 3 : 227. Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh 1928. Gastrimargus africanus var. zebrata (Chhindwara, Damoh, Mandla, Sahdol, Seoni Sjostedt, Svenska Akad. Handl., 6 (3) No. 1 : 41. and Sidhi), Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, 1982. Gastrimargus africanus africanus, Ritchie, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), 44 (4): 248. Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Material examined : Damoh, VDWLS, Bhaisa Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South ghat, 21.i.09 (1♂,3♀), coll. J. Thilak. East China, South East Tibet, Sri Lanka, Yemen and West Eden. Distribution : India : Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Kailash Chandra and Sunil Kumar Gupta 72 Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Pradesh (Chhindwara, Damoh and Seoni), Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh Manipur, Meghalaya, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil (Chhindwara, Damoh, Mandla, Rewa, Sahdol Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West and Seoni), Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, Bengal. Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar