Ducetia japonica (Thunberg)

Gupta, Sunil Kumar & Chandra, Kailash, 2018, Systematic study of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Insecta) fauna from Chhattisgarh, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4), pp. 325-336 : 329-330

8. Ducetia japonica (Thunberg)

1815. Locusta japonica Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. (Sci. Phys.), 5: 282.

1961. Ducetia japonica, Ragge, Bull. Brit. Mus . nat. Hist. (Ent.), 10 (5): 182.

2005. Ducetia japonica, Kulkarni & Shishodia, Fauna of Conservation Area 24: Fauna of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Zool. Surv. India: 321.

Material examined: Chhattisgarh, Raipur, Barnawapara WLS; Devgaon , 16.vii.2011 1(♂, DC); Barnawapara camp ,

29.vii.2011, 1(♂,NC) coll. S. K. Gupta & party.

Diagnostic characters: Body size small to medium, colour dark green. Tegmina and wings well developed; tegmina less than 35 mm.in length, posterior radial sector with 4-6 closely parallel branches; cerci with interno-ventral ridge at apex; subgenital plate deeply bifurcate with contiguous lobes and without apical teeth.

Distribution: India: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh, China, Hainan, Indo-China, Japan, Java, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet and Tonkin.