Acrida exaltata (Walker, 1859)

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 : 476

1. Acrida exaltata (Walker, 1859)

1859. Truxalis exaltata Walker, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., 4 (3): 222.

1969. Acrida exaltata : Tandon & Shishodia, Oriental Ins .,

3 (3): 267.

Material examined: 1 ex, Gosaba, 18.ix.2011; 1 ex, Beltalia, 25.ix.2011; 1 ex, Birajmoni, 26.ix.2011; 1 ex, Kaikhali, 3.iv.2012; 1 ex, Dakshin Baikantapur, 4.xi.2012; 1 ex, Kaikhali, 9.xi.2012; 1 ex, Kakdweep, 12.iv.2013.

Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South East Tibet, Sri Lanka, Yemen and West Aden.

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