*2.5.1 Taxonomy*

The name *Chrotogonous trachypterus* was given by Blanchard in 1836 to tribe *Chrotogonini* Bolivar (1904) and family Pyrgomorphidae. Surface grasshoppers are multivorous, stout, muddy in color, poly phagous insect feeding on almost all the foliage and green tender shoots belonging to order orthoptera and family Pyrgomorphhidae.

Infraspecies: *Chrotogonous (trachypterus) trachypterus.*
