Trilophidia annulata (Thunberg)

Sharma, Narender, 2018, Acridoidea and Pyrgomorphoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera) of Rajaji National Park, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4) : -

20. Trilophidia annulata (Thunberg)

1815. Gryllus annulatus Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. - Petersb., 5: 234.

2008. Trilophidia annulata : Shishodia, Faunal diversity of Jabalpur district, M.P., (Zool. Surv. India): 98.

Material examined: Kansrau Range, Kansrau, 1 male, 17. xii.1966 (Coll. A. Singh and party); Chilla Range, Chilla, 1 male, 1 female, 30.ix.2014, Regd. No. A-13213-A-13214 (Coll. N. Sharma and party); Ramgarh Range, Phandowala, 1 male, 25.vii.2014 (Coll. N. Sharma and party); Dholkhand Range, Ganjarvan, 1 male, 25.vii.2014, 1 male, 28.viii.2014, (Coll. N. Sharma and party); Beribara Range, Senthali, 1 male, 1 female, 17.ix.2015, Regd. No. A-13158-A-13159, Bam, 1 male, 28.viii.2014 (Coll. N. Sharma and party).

Diagnosis: Medium in size; body brown to grey with black markings, pubescent beneath; pronotum rugose with a high median carina, forming two teeth in front, and with lateral carina; wings yellow at base and brown or black beyond; hind tibiae brown with a pale band towards the base and with a little pale band beyond the middle.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhnd, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Borneo, Hong Kong, Japan, Java, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sarawak, Singapore, South China, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.