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This paper presents the distributional record of the of grasshopper fauna of Uregi and Dobha villages in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. A total of 18 species of grasshoppers belonging to 3 families and 17 genera were recorded during this study. Acrididae was the dominant family with 15 species and the other minor families were Tettigoniidae with 2 species and pyrgomorphidae with 1 species. This habitat was studied for the first time and a maximum number of the grasshoppers were recorded in Uregi village as compared to the Dobha village.