Oxya hyla Serville, 1831

Chand, D. Suresh, Das, Swapan Kr. & Kumar, Hirdesh, 2021, Diversity of short-horned grasshoppers (Insecta: Orthoptera) in the Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (4), pp. 473-481 : 478-479

13. Oxya hyla Serville, 1831 1831. Oxya hyla Serville, Ann. Sci. nat. (Zool.) Paris, 22: 287.

Material examined: 1 ex, Gosaba, 18.ix.2011; 1 ex, Bidya beat, 19.ix.2011; 8 exes, Pakhiralla, 20.ix.2011; 2 ex, Satjallia, 23.ix.2011; 3 exes, Chotta mollakhali, 23.ix.2011; 1 ex, Boda mollakhali, 24.ix.2011; 1 ex, Kotchakhalli Mansatalla, 24.ix.2011; 3 exes, Jharkhali, 2.iv.2012; 10 exes, Kaikhali, 3.iv.2012; 2 ex, Dakshin Baikantapur,

4.xi.2012; 2 ex, Patharpratima, 5.xi.2012; 1 ex, Kalas,

7.xi.2012; 1 ex, Piyali, 11.xi.2012; 1 ex, Bakkhali, 6.iv.2013; 1 ex, Frasergunj, 7.iv.2013.

Distribution: India: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, Mrica, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Cameroun, Chad, Central African Republic, Cote d’ lovoire, Iran, Fernando, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Iran, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Maldives Island, Mali, Malawi, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sao Thome, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire and Zambia.

Remarks: This species was listed from Sunderbans by Mandal and Nandi (1989).