Aularches miliaris miliaris (Linnaeus)

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

5. Aularches miliaris miliaris (Linnaeus)

1758. Gryllus (Locusta) miliaris Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. , (10 th ed.) 1: 432.

2007. Aularches miliaris miliaris : Mandal and Yadav, State Fauna Series, 5: Fauna of Andhra Pradesh, Part 3, Zool. Surv. India: 190.

Material examined: Chilla Range, Chilla, 1 female,

30.ix.2014, Regd. No. A-13229 (Coll. N. Sharma and party).

Diagnosis: Large in size; body stout; head large, smooth, pale or black; pronotum strongly tuberculate above, with two large contiguous humps in front, cut by all the three sulci, front hump black or yellow, the hinder area rugose and deeply pitted at the sides; tegmina light brown, thickly reticulated with yellow nervures and with variable number of large and small callous yellow spots; wings purplish brown, darker towards base; abdomen black with narrow yellow incisions.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Java, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, South Vietnam and West Malaysia.