Bio-ecology of Orthopteran Fauna in Maize Ecosystem of Udaipur Region
| dc.contributor.advisor | S. Ramesh Babu | |
| dc.contributor.author | RISHI RAJ SINGH CHUNDAWAT | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-04T09:30:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-04T09:30:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The investigations on “Bio-ecology of Orthopteran Fauna in Maize Ecosystem of Udaipur Region” were carried out at Department of Entomology, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur during July to November 2023, with the following objectives of studying the diversity of short-horned and long-horned grasshoppers in maize along with the identification and characterization of collected orthopterans. Total of 13 species were recorded from 5 acridid genera and 5 tettigonid genera. The collected acridid genera (5) belonged to three sub-families (Acridinae, Hemiacridinae and Oedipodinae) identified as Acrida Linnaeus, Aiolopus Fieber, Hieroglyphus Krauss, Trilophidia Stal, and Parahieroglyphus Carl. The collected tettigonid genera (4) belonged to three sub-families (Phaneropterinae, Conocephalinae, Mecopodinae and Hexacentrinae) identified as Isopsera Brunner von Wattenwyl, Elimaea Stal, Conocephalus Thunberg, Mecopoda Serville and Hexacentrus Serville. From the two collected families Acrididae and Tettigonidae, it was observed that short-horned grasshoppers showed more abundance and higher diversity than the long-horned grasshopper. Diversity Indices namely Shannon Diversity Index and Simpson’s Diversity Index ranging from 4.9-6.82 and 1.69-1.93 respectively for Acrididae and 1.95-7.60 and 0.68-1.74 respectively for Tettigonidae. Among acridids species H.nigrorepletus showed highest abundance and relative density 59.4% at Mavli in the month of October followed by H. banian i.e., 37.6% at Mavli. Among the members of tettigonids species Conocephalus maculatus showed highest abundance and relative density 64.29% at Girwa in the month of July followed by Conocephalus veginalis i.e., 62.5% at Vallabhnagar in the month of November. Abundance and diversity of long-horned grasshoppers was recorded significantly at evening hours as compare to morning hours. Based on the external morphology, two long-horned and four short-horned grasshopper were identified and the same was confirmed with the molecular analysis. In the study, the COI gene sequences from Mecopodaelongata, Hexacentrus japonicas, Hieroglyphus nigrorepletus, H. banian, Aiolopus thalassinus and Trilophidia annulata samples showed a length of 620,602,542,603,654 and 641 bp, respectively and BLASTn searches confirmed the presence of mentioned species in the present study. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Chundawat R. R. S. and Babu S. R. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810215367 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.pages | 76 | |
| dc.publisher | MPUAT, Udaipur | |
| dc.research.problem | Bio-ecology of Orthopteran Fauna in Maize Ecosystem of Udaipur Region | |
| dc.sub | Entomology | |
| dc.theme | Bio-ecology of Orthopteran Fauna in Maize Ecosystem of Udaipur Region | |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | |
| dc.title | Bio-ecology of Orthopteran Fauna in Maize Ecosystem of Udaipur Region | |
| dc.type | Thesis |