Aiolopus thalassinus tamulus (Fabricius, 1798)

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 : 477

6. Aiolopus thalassinus tamulus (Fabricius, 1798)

1798. Gryllus tamulus Fabricius, Entomologia systematica Suppl.: 195.

1968. Aiolopus thalassinus tumulus : Hollis, Bull. Br. Mus . nat. Hist., (Ent.), 22 (7): 347.

Material examined: 2 ex, Gosaba, 18.ix.2011; 1 ex, Bidya beat, 19.ix.2011; 3 ex, Dobanki beat, 19.ix.2011; 1 ex, Netidopani beat, 20.ix.2011; 1 ex, Pakhiralla,

20.ix.2011; 2 ex, Satjallia, 23.ix.2011; 1 ex, Chotta mollakhali, 23.ix.2011; 1 ex, Boda mollakhali, 24.ix.2011; 1 ex, Sajnekhali WLS, 18.ix.2011; 1 ex, Amtali, 24.ix.2011; 1 ex, Kotchakhalli Mansatalla, 24.ix.2011; 1 ex, Beltalia,

25.ix.2011; 2 exes, Jharkhali, 2.iv.2012; 2 exes, Kaikhali,

3.iv.2012; 1 ex, Dakshin Baikantapur, 4.xi.2012; 2 ex, Patharpratima, 5.xi.2012; 4 exes, Kalas Camp, 5.xi.2012; 1 ex, Piyali, 11.xi.2012; 1 ex, Bakkhali, 6.iv.2013; 1 ex, Frasergunj, 7.iv.2013.

Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Australia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Brunei, Celebes, China, Hainan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Java, Lombok, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Guinea, Pakistan, Papua, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Taiwan, Thailand and Timor.

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