Oxya hyla hyla (Serville, 1831)

Usmani, Mohd. Kamil & Nayeem, Md. Rashid, 2012, Studies on taxonomy and distribution of Acridoidea (Orthoptera) of Bihar, India, Journal of Threatened Taxa 4 (13), pp. 3190-3204 : 3194

6. Oxya hyla hyla (Serville, 1831)

Diagnostic characters: Body of medium size, antennae filiform, longer than, as long as, or shorter than head and pronotum together; fastigium of vertex short, without mid-longitudinal carinula, frontal ridge sulcate, dorsum of pronotum slightly flattened, crossed by three transverse sulci, median carina weak, lateral carinae absent, metazona shorter than prozona, posterior margin rounded or obtusely angular. Ovipositor valves with long hook like dents posterior ventral basivalvular sclerites with very small spinelets on its inner ventral margin. Male circus with subacute or truncate apex.

Material examined: 2 females, 24.x.2010, on grasses, Gopalganj; 1 female, 24.vi.2009, on paddy, Banka; 6 females, 20.xi.2010, on paddy, Araria; 1 female, 13.vi.2009, on paddy, Sarsaram, Rohtas.

Morphometry: (length in mm). Female: Body 13.8,

Tegmina 22.2, Hind femur 13.4, Pronotum 8.2. Remarks: Reputed pest of paddy. Natural enemies: No natural enemies recorded. Distribution: Punjab, Haryana, Bihar, Uttar

Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal,

Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur.