Holochlora indica Kirby, 1906

Gupta, Sunil Kumar & Chandra, Kailash, 2018, Systematic study of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Insecta) fauna from Chhattisgarh, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4), pp. 325-336 : 330

10. Holochlora indica Kirby, 1906

1906. Holochlora indica Kirby, Syn. Cata. Orth. : 430.

2000. Holochlora indica, Barman , State Fauna Series 7: Fauna of Tripura, Zool. Surv. India, (2): 264.

Material examined: Chhattisgarh, Raipur, Barnawapara WLS; Barnawapara camp, 6.ix.2011, 1(♀,NC); Latadadar,

23.ix.2011, 2(1 ♂, 1 ♀,DC); Balamdehi River , 1.x.2011, 1(♀,DC). Surguja , Tamor Pingla WLS; Ramkola,

14.v.2013, 1(♂,DC) coll. S. K. Gupta & party.

Diagnostic characters: Fastigium conically produced with round apex; anterior margin of pronotum concave and posterior margin convex, radius sector-2 arises from middle of wing and bifurcated at its basal third; hind femur with spines on apical half and anterior two pairs bare of spines; male subgenital plate at the region of bifurcation forms a circle, style foot-shaped; circus gradually narrowed and curved at apex; ovipositor curved and serrate at apical region.

Distribution: India: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh (Raipur and Surguja), Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Java and Sri Lanka.