Sathrophyllia femorata (Fabricius, 1787)

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 : 334

22. Sathrophyllia femorata (Fabricius, 1787)

1787. Locusta femorata Fabricius, Mantissa Insectorum stens eorum species nuper detectas adjectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus,: 233.

1869. Sathrophyllia femorata Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus .,: 401.

2003. Sathrophyllia femorata ; Barman, State Fauna Series 9: Fauna of Sikkim, Zool.Surv. India, (2): 197.

Material examined: Chhattisgarh, Raipur, Barnawapara WLS; Barnawaparacamp ,24.ix.2011,2(♂,NC). Kabirdham , Bhoramdev WLS; Balsamund , 01.ix.2011, 1(♂,DC); Chilpi FRH, 31.viii.2011, 1(♂,NC); Sunwahi Forest , 18.xi.2011, 1(♂,DC). Korba, Kartala Nursury, 01.xii.2011, 1(♂,DC). Surguja, Khar village , 10.xi.2011, 1(♀,DC); Taralekhudal, 15.ix.2012, 1(♀,DC); Mendragaon, 19.xi.2011, 1(♀,DC) coll. S. K. Gupta & party .

Diagnostic characters: Body colour light brownish; head without any wrinkle or hump; pronotum without any hump, broadly rounded posteriorly; tegmina 3.5 times longer than broad, sparsely spotted with dark-brown marks; hind wings with transverse cross veins with dark-brown patches; anterior femora faintly or not undulated; anterior tibiae ventrally spined on outside; middle and hind femora undulated ventrally; ovipositor long, wide at base, directed upwards beyond the middle.

Distribution: India: Chhattisgrh (Kabirdham, Korba, Raipur and Surguja), Karnataka, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Borneo; Cambodia; Java; Malaysia; Myanmar and Sumatra.