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Int. J. Biosci. 2013 International Journal of Biosciences | IJB | ISSN: 2220-6655 (Print) 2222-5234 (Online) Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 180-191, 2013 RESEARCH PAPER OPEN ACCESS Studies on the tribe Acrotylini (Acrididae: Orthoptera) from Pakistan 1 1 1 2 Barkat Ali Bughio , Riffat Sultana , M. Saeed Wagan , Farman Ullah , Muhammad Ather Rafi3* 1Department of Zoology, University of Sindh Jamshoro, Pakistan 2Department of Plant Protection, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan 3National Insect Museum, National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad, Pakistan Key words: Acrotylini, pest, morphological characteristic, phallic complex, epiphallus . doi: /10.12692/ijb/3.4.180- 191 Article published on April 22, 2013 Abstract The tribe Acrotylini are considered as pest of cereal crops, vegetables, orchards and pastures in Pakistan. During present study 5 species and subspecies of the tribe Acrotylini i-e Acrotylus humbertianus (Saussure), A. insubricus insubricus (Scopoli) A. pa truelis (Herrich-Schaffer) A. longipes longipes (Charpentier) and A. longipes subfasciatus were examined. In this manuscript general morphological characteristic along with detail study of phallic complex of each species has carried out. Overall finding showed that there is significant difference in the epiphallus, ancorae, lophi and spermatheca of these siblings’ species of Acrotylini. * Correspondi