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Sunil Kumar Gupta

  • Biodiversity Journal, 8 (3): 819-826

    Sunil Kumar Gupta & Kailash Chandra
    A new genus (Orthoptera Acrididae Acridinae) and three species of short-horned grasshoppers from India

    ABSTRACT
    A new genus Keshava n. gen. (Orthoptera) of the subfamily Acridinae (type species Keshava shishodensis n. sp.) with three new species are described from Chhattisgarh, India. Taxonomical notes are provided.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 8 (2): 739-748

    Sunil Kumar Gupta & Kailash Chandra
    A Taxonomic study of the Pygmygrasshopper (Orthoptera Tetrigidae) from India with description of a new species

    ABSTRACT
    A new species of genus Coptotettix Bolivar, 1887, C. magedhensis n. sp. (Orthoptera Tetrigidae), is described from Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India. Also studied with 19 species belonging to 7 genera under two subfamilies Scelimeninae and Tetriginae under family Tetrigidae.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 7 (1): 039-050

    Sunil Kumar Gupta
    Systematic account of Orthoptera fauna of Bastar district, Chhattisgarh, India

    ABSTRACT
    A faunistic survey in Bastar district, Chhattisgarh (India) revealed 52 species belonging to 45 genera, 8 families, including five species which are new record to the Orthoptera fauna of Chhattisgarh: Calliptamus barbarus barbarus (Costa, 1836), Ceracris fasciata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893), Oedaleus senegalensis (Krauss, 1877), Aularches miliaris miliaris (Linnaeus,1758), and Loxoblemmus haani Saussure, 1877.