Spathosternum prasiniferum prasiniferum (Walker, 1871)

Chand, D. Suresh, Das, Swapan Kr. & Kumar, Hirdesh, 2021, Diversity of short-horned grasshoppers (Insecta: Orthoptera) in the Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (4), pp. 473-481 : 479

16. Spathosternum prasiniferum prasiniferum (Walker, 1871)

1871. Heteracris prasiniferum Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit.

Mus ., 5: 65.

2010. Spathosternum prasiniferunm prasiniferum : Shishodia et al., Rec. zool. Surv. India, Occ. Paper No., 314: 114.

Material examined: 3 exes, Gosaba, 18.ix.2011; 1 ex, Sajnekhali WLS, 18.ix.2011; 1 ex, Bidya beat, 19.ix.2011; 1 ex, Dobanki beat, 19.ix.2011; 1 ex, Netidopani beat,

20.ix.2011; 1 ex, Pakhiralla, 20.ix.2011; 2 ex, Satjallia,

23.ix.2011; 3 exes, Chotta mollakhali, 23.ix.2011; 1 ex, Boda mollakhali, 24.ix.2011; 1 ex, Amtali, 24.ix.2011; 1 ex, Kotchakhalli Mansatalla, 24.ix.2011; 1 ex, Beltalia,

25.ix.2011; 2 exes, Jharkhali, 2.iv.2012; 2 exes, Kaikhali,

3.iv.2012; 2 exes, Sajnekhali WLS, 6.iv.2012; 1 ex, Chulkati,

11.iv.2012; 1 ex, Dakshin Baikantapur, 4.xi.2012; 2 ex, Patharpratima, 5.xi.2012; 1 ex, Piyali, 11.xi.2012; 1 ex, Bakkhali, 6.iv.2013; 1 ex, Frasergunj, 7.iv.2013.

Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Hainan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, South and East China, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and West Malaysia.

Remarks: This species was listed from Sunderbans by Mandal and Nandi (1989).

Subfamily TROPIDOPOLINAE Jacobson, 1905

Tribe Tristriini Mishchenko, 1945

Genus Tristria Stål, 1873