Hemiacridinae Dirsh,1956

Usmani, Mohd. Kamil & Nayeem, Md. Rashid, 2012, Studies on taxonomy and distribution of Acridoidea (Orthoptera) of Bihar, India, Journal of Threatened Taxa 4 (13), pp. 3190-3204 : 3194-3195

Subfamily: Hemiacridinae Dirsh,1956 9. Hieroglyphus banian (Fabricius, 1798)

Diagnostic characters: Green including the antennae. Pronotum smooth with four sulci, narrowly lined with black, the first obsolete above, the second on the sides and the last two continuous. Tegmina

subhyaline, densely reticulated and greenish at the base, with green nervures, wings as long as the tegmina, greenish hyaline. The three sub-terminal ventral segments with silky tufts of hair on the middle. Hind tibiae blue with black tipped spines. Antennae with the basal joint yellowish-green, the rest dark green tipped with yellow.

Material examined: 1 female, 18.vi.2009, on paddy, Jehanabad.

Morphometry: (length in mm). Female: Body 49.0, Tegmina 33.1, Hind femur 23.9, Pronotum 9.4.

Natural enemies: The authors found small reddish mites possibly Trombidium sp. on adults but doubted whether they caused any mortality. 15% of egg pods dug up near Bangalore was parasitized by Scelio hieroglyphi (Basa, 1953) . Many vertebrates including frogs, snakes, lizards, birds and mammals occasionally feed on H. banian but none is regarded as an important predator.

Remarks: The specimen was collected from paddy.

Distribution: West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh.