Sphingonotus longipennis Saussure

Sharma, Narender, 2018, Acridoidea and Pyrgomorphoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera) of Rajaji National Park, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4) : -

23. Sphingonotus longipennis Saussure

1878. Sphingonotus longipennis Saussure, Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Geneva, 25: 78.

2006. Sphingonotus longipennis : Mandal et al., State Fauna Series, 13: Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 2, Zool Surv. India,: 161.

Material examined: Ramgarh Range, Asarori, 2 male,

1.vii.1966, Phandowala, 1 male, 1 female, 13.xii.1966 (Coll. A. Singh and party).

Diagnosis: Body size larger than other species of the genus; dark band of the hind wings long, in the form of a quarter circle, nearly reaching the inner margin, base of wing skyblue-greenish, sometimes nearly colourless; hind tibiae with two dark bands; hind femur short, stout, only 3.3 times longer than wide; sub-genital plate, in female, with a notch on the middle of posterior margin.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, Africa, Bangladesh, Europe, Mongolia, Nepal, South East Tibet.