author(s)
Muhammad Umar Brohi, Imran Khatri, Arfan Ahmed Gilal, Zubair Ahmed, Zamin Hussain Dahri and Ihasan Ahmed Magssi

abstract
The present study was conducted to study the insect pest diversity on a wheat crop, the specimens were collected from wheat crop adjacent to the Administration Block Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam from 15^th of January 2018 to 25^th of March 2018. In present study total 13 insect pest species were discovered under four orders, Hemiptera, Linnaeus 1758 revealed 10 species, Nilaparvata lugens (Stål, 1854) and Delphacodes kuscheli Fennah, 1955 under family Delphacidae Leach, Pentastiridius hodgarti (Distant, 1911) under family Cixiidae Spinola, 1839. Collection of leafhoppers revealed the occurrence of 3 species Balclutha incisa (Matsumura, 1902) under family Cicadellidae, Latreille 1802, Psammotettix emarginata, Empoasca punjabensis Singh-Pruthi, 1940. One aphid species Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877 under family Aphididae Latreille, 1802. True bugs were found with 3 species Scotinophara limosa (Walker, 1867) family Pentatomidae Leach, 1815, two species under family Lygaeidae Schilling, 1829, Graptostethus servus (Fabricius, 1787) and Oxycarenus hyalinipennis (Costa, 1843). One moth Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1808) under family Noctuidae, Latreille, 1809. One grasshopper species Acrida exaltata Walker, 1859 under family Acrididae MacLeay, 1821. One click beetle species was also discovered namely Melanotus punctolineatus Pelerin, 1829 under family Elateridae, Leach, 1815.