Long-horned grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

<p>The present communication highlights the significant records of tettigoniids from Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary, Kolhapur, Maharashtra State. A total of 11 species belonging to five subfamilies distributed over 11 genera are discussed. Out of these 11 species nine are known from Maharashtra and two are new locality records. Each subfamily is represented by only one species of which <em>Phyllozelus </em>(<em>Phyllozelus</em>)<em> siccus siccus </em>and <em>Hexacentrus unicolor </em>are new records to Maharashtra.</p><div> </div>

First record of a true katydid Sathrophyllia rugosa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Gujarat state, India

“…The specimen studied in this study fits well with Stål, (1874), Kirby, (1906) [5] and Gaikwad et al, (2016) [3] descriptions and illustrations. The primary recognition character of this species is it's crested pronotum, ash coloured body, rugose shape and presence of round shaped dark spots in the cells of elytron (Fig.…”

“…The first records of Sathrophyllia femorata (Fabricius, 1787) and Sathrophyllia rugosa (Linnaeus, 1758) were reported from Uttar Pradesh, India (Yadav and Kumar, 2020) [13] and West Bengal, India (Barman, 1993) [1] . In India, the first appearance of Sathrophyllia rugosa (Linnaeus, 1758) was reported by Gaikwad et al, (2016) [3] from Pune, Nadkerny (1965) [8] from Andheri & Nashik, Maharashtra; Tiwari and Gupta (2016) [12] from Madhya Pradesh; and Barman (1995) [2] from Meghalaya. Four species, Sathrophyllia saeedi sp.…”

The First Report of the Diversity of Ensifera (Insecta: Orthoptera) From Rokan Hulu District, Riau Province

“…The majority of the Ensifera species recorded in this study are common which also inhabit outside Indonesia regions e.g. Malaysia, Singapore, China, Korea, and India (Muzamil & Mohamedsaid, 1998;Kim & Kim, 2002;Tan, 2010aTan, , 2010bTan, , 2011aTan, , 2011bTan, , 2012aTan, , 2012bSrinivasan & Prabakar, 2012;Tan & Wang, 2012;Robillard & Tan, 2013;Tan, 2013;Tan et al,, 2013;Kim & Pam, 2014;Tan & Kamaruddin, 2014;Li et al, 2015;Gaikwad et al, 2016). In Indonesia, only some species of Ensifera were recorded by several researchers in taxonomy study, e.g.…”