Oedipoda himalayana Uvarov, 1925

Kumar, Hirdesh, Chandra, Kailash, Ali, Mohd. & Saini, Jagdish, 2018, On a collection of Acridoidea (Orthoptera) from Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4), pp. 381-388 : 383

9. Oedipoda himalayana Uvarov, 1925 (Fig. 9)

Materials examined: Kargil, Parkachik, 1♀, 22.viii.2017;

Leh, Hanu, 1♀, 20.ix.2017 coll. Mohd. Ali.

Diagnosis: Small to medium sized; antennae filiform; fastigium of vertex concave, apex obtuse; frontal ridge sulcate; pronotum tectiform, median carina strongly raised in prozona and moderately raised in metazona, deeply excised at posterior transverse sulcus; tegmina fully developed; hind wings with dark bands narrow.

Female: Body: 22.0; Pronotum: 5.0; Tegmina: 23.0; Hind femur: 15.0; Hind tibia: 11.0.