Acrida gigantea (Herbst)

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/132291

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scientific name

Acrida gigantea (Herbst)
status

 

8. Acrida gigantea (Herbst) View in CoL

1794. Truxalis gigantea Herbst, Fuessly Archiv.,: 191. 2006. Acrida gigantea: Shishodia, Bionotes, 8 (1): 11.

Material examined: Dholkhand Range, Dholkhand, 1 male, 1 female, 18.xii.2015 (Coll. N. Sharma & party).

Diagnosis: Head conically ascending; fastigium of vertex broad, laminate and truncate at apex; transverse sulcus of pronotum present about the middle of pronotal disc; subgenital plate comparatively long; tegmina extends little beyond the hind knee; wings shorter than tegmina; lateral carinae with black inner margins.

Distribution: India: Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand. Elsewhere: Africa and Nepal.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Acrididae

Genus

Acrida

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