Oxya nitidula (Walker, 1870)

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 : 479

14. Oxya nitidula (Walker, 1870)

1870. Acridium nitidulum Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus ., 4: 631.

1971. Oxya nitidula : Hollis, Bull. Br. Mus . nat. Hist. (Ent.), 26 (7): 315.

Material examined: 1 ex, Gosaba, 18.ix.2011; 1 ex, Pakhiralla, 20.ix.2011; 1 ex, Satjallia, 23.ix.2011; 1 ex, Chotta mollakhali, 23.ix.2011; 1 ex, Boda mollakhali,

24.ix.2011; 1 ex, Jharkhali, 2.iv.2012; 2 exes, Kaikhali,

3.iv.2012; 1 ex, Piyali, 11.xi.2012.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Sri Lanka.

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