Spathosternum prasiniferum prasiniferum (Walker)

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

26. Spathosternum prasiniferum prasiniferum (Walker)

1871. Heteracris prasinifera Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus ., 5: 65.

2007. Spathosternum prasiniferum prasiniferum : Mandal et al., Pictorial handbook on Indian short-horned grasshopper pests ( Acridoidea : Orthoptera ) (Zool. Surv. India): 23.

Material examined: Kansrau Range, Kansrau, 1 male,

17.iv.1967 (Coll. A. Singh and party), 3 male, 5 female,

28.v.2014, 2 male, 2 female, 28.i.2016 (Coll. N. Sharma and party); Chilla Range , Chilla, 4 male, 4 female , 30.ix.2014, Regd. No. A-13215-A-13221, Regd. No. A-13032, Mandal , 1 male , 26.ii.2016, A-13178 (Coll. N. Sharma and party); Ramgarh Range , Phandowala, 2 female , 28.vii.2014, 1 male, 3 female 28.i.2015, Regd. No. A-12834-A12837, 2 male, 28.i.2016, Regd. No. A-13182-A-13183 (Coll. N. Sharma and party); Dholkhand Range , Ganjarvan, 1 female , 28.viii.2014, 2 male, 2 female 17.ix.2015, Regd. No. A-13127-A-13130 (Coll. N. Sharma and party); Dholkhand Range ; Dholkhand, 3 male, 4 female ,

28.xii.2015 (Coll. N. Sharma and party).

Diagnosis: Body small in size; a dark brown stripe runs behind the lower part of eye and below the lateral carinae of pronotum on each side; central area of tegmen with a longitudinal black streak, generally almost obsolete in male and well marked in female; head considerably shorter than pronotum; antennae short; tegmina reaching distal end of hind femora; hind femora with a rounded genicular lobe.

Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Hainan, Malaysia, Myanmar, South East China, Sri Lanka, Thailand, West and Vietnam.