Oxya hyla hyla Serville, 1831

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

27. Oxya hyla hyla Serville

1831. Oxya hyla Serville, Annls. Sci. nat. (zool), 22: 287.

2007. Oxya hyla hyla : Mandal et al., Pictorial handbook on Indian short-horned grasshopper pests ( Acridoidea : Orthoptera ), Zool. Surv. India,: 28.

Material examined: Chilla Range, Chilla, 1 female,

30.ix.2014, Regd. No. A-13212 (Coll. N. Sharma and party).

Diagnosis: Body medium-sized, body finely rugose, shiney; antennae longer than head and pronotum together; supra-anal plate trapezoidal with triangular apical projection, a small tubercle present on both sides of supra-anal plate; cercus with subacute apex; in female subgenital plate with two longitudinal ridges extending forwards from posterior margin.

Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujrat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, Africa, Angola, Bangladesh, Ghana, Guinea, Iran, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Nepal, Pakistan, Persia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia.