Phyllozelus (Phyllozelus) siccus siccus (Walker, 1869)

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 : 333

20. Phyllozelus (Phyllozelus) siccus siccus (Walker, 1869)

1869. Pseudophyllus siccus Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus . 2: 403.

1869. Pseudophyllus signatus Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus . 2: 407.

1962. Phyllozelus siccus, Beier, Das Tierreich , 73: 87.

2003. Phyllozelus siccus, Barman , State Fauna Series 9: Fauna of Sikkim, Zool. Surv. India, (2): 200.

Material examined: Chhattisgarh, Raipur, Barnawapara WLS; Barnawapara camp, 06.viii.2011, 1(♂,NC); 05.ix.2011, 2(1 ♂, 1 ♀,NC); 06.ix.2011, 2(♀,NC); 19.ix.2011, 1(♀,NC); Marer Pond, 22.ix.2011, 1(♂,DC); Latadadar, 23.ix.2011, 2(♂,DC). Surguja, Tara FRH, 16.ix.2012, 11(♂,DC) coll. S. K. Gupta & party.

Diagnostic characters: Body robust. Fastigium verticis narrow conically, dorsally furrowed, apex blunt, not surpassing the rim of antennal scrobe. Pronotum not roof-shaped, carinated; apex gradually tapering, with 2 long spines. Prosternum armed; meso and metasternum strongly transverse, all of them as long as wide, lobes blunt; tegmen broad and leaf like, surpassing hind knees; radius sector branching slightly before the middle of tegmen length, forked.

Distribution: India: Assam, Chhattisgarh (Raipur and Surguja), Sikkim and Tamil Nadu.