Diversity of grasshopper in the piedmont of mount Elum, Buner

A study from March 2019 to August 2019 was conducted to find out the diversity of Grasshopper in the piedmont of mount Elum, Buner. Its elevation is 2,800 meters. A total of 633 specimens were collected during the study period. A 22 species of grasshopper were identified under nineteen genera of three families. Members of family Acrididae (17) under 8 subfamilies were found the most abundant. Whereas, Tettigoniidae (3) has two subfamilies and Pyrgomorphidae (2) has only one subfamily. Statistical analysis indicated percentage of different species of family Acrididae is 84.2% while Tettigoniidae is 9.8% and Pyrgomorphidae is 6%. The most dominant species recorded was Diabolocatantops pinguis (11%) whereas, Euconocephalus incertus (0.6%), indicated the lowest range. The diversity were found through analysis of different parameters like morphometric measurement such as body length, length of wings, length of femur, length of tabia, length of tarsi, length of antennae, length of pronotum with finely divider and a common scale ruler. The data were analyzed via MS Excel version 2010.