Orthochtha indica Uvarov

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

12. Orthochtha indica Uvarov

1942. Orthochtha indica Uvarov, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. London 9 (11): 587.

2007. Orthochtha indica : Saini and Mehta, Bionotes, 9 (3): 76.

Material examined: Gohri Range, 2 male, 1 female,

31.08.2015 (Coll. N. Sharma and party).

Diagnosis: General coloration very light yellowish; a brownish-black lateral fascia runs along the sides of fastigium, behind the eyes, along the upper margin of lateral pronotal lobes and along the basal-third of the radial veins; fastigium of vertex longer than wide; antennae very long, extending back beyond the base of hind femur, basal segments flattened, remaining rounded; pronotum long, laterally compressed, disc flat, slightly rounded in prozona, very weakly tectiform in metazona, all the carinae distinct, lateral carinae straight and parallel in prozona and weakly divergent in metazona; tegmina reaching a little beyond hind knees; last tergite with broad parabolic excision; supra-anal plate tongue shaped; cercus as long as plate; subgenital plate short, obtusely conical.

Distribution: India: Punjab, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.