Cyrtacanthacridinae Uvarov, 1923

Usmani, Mohd. Kamil & Nayeem, Md. Rashid, 2012, Studies on taxonomy and distribution of Acridoidea (Orthoptera) of Bihar, India, Journal of Threatened Taxa 4 (13), pp. 3190-3204 : 3196-3197

Subfamily: Cyrtacanthacridinae Uvarov, 1923 16. Schistocerca gregaria Stal, 1873

Diagnostic characters: Body of large size,

integument finely punctuate, antennae filiform, shorter than head and pronotum together; fastigium of vertex trapezoidal, with shallow longitudinal depression, frontal ridge low, narrower than interocular distance, pronotum constricted, crossed by three transverse sulci, median carina low, sometimes indistinct in prozona, lateral carinae absent, metazona about as long as prozona, posterior margin rounded, prosternal process cylindrical, moderately bent towards mesosternum but not touching it, tegmina fully developed, apex obliquely rounded, veinlets in the apical part more or less perpendicular to the veins, hind femur with lower basal lobe shorter than upper, external apical spine of hind tibia absent.

Material Examined: 2 females, 1 male, 18.vi.2009, on maize, Jehanabad; 2 females, 1 male, 16.iv.2010, harvested wheat field, Araria.

Morphometry: (length in mm). Male: Body 47.15, Tegmina 38.5, Hind femur 21.15, Pronotum 9.0. Female: Body 67.0, Tegmina 52.8, Hind femur 30.65, Pronotum 13.4.

Remarks: Well reputed for gregaration in superfamily Acridoidea .

Natural enemies: No natural enemies recorded.

Distribution: Bihar, Uttar Pradesh.