Sumbul Siddiqui & S.M. Shamim*
Department of Zoology, Ranchi University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Received 5th May, 2010; Revised 11th August, 2010
Abstract : Taxonomy plays an important role in the field of applied biology because unless and until the identity of the pests is correctly determined, no control measure can work. A wrong identification may upset the entire control strategy. The acridids is a group of economically important pests of various crops which need to be collected from agricultural fields, preserved and identified based on sound taxonomic characters.