Oxya nitidula (Walker)

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

28. Oxya nitidula (Walker)

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

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

Material examined: Kansrau Range, Kansrau, 1 female,

28.v.2014 (Coll. N. Sharma and party).

Diagnosis: Medium-sized; pronotum narrowing forwards; posterior margin of metazona rounded; tegmina reaching the apex of hind femora; supraanal plate at apex roundly triangular with basal folds; cerci conical, with acutely truncate apex; ventral surface of subgenital plate of female, with a pair of well developed submarginal lateral spines, posterior margin with a single median spine and a pair of lateral spines.

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