Ceracris nigricornis nigricornis (Walker)

Sharma, Narender, 2018, Acridoidea and Pyrgomorphoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera) of Rajaji National Park, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4) : -

13. Ceracris nigricornis nigricornis (Walker)

1870. Ceracris nigriocornis Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Br. Mus ., 4: 791.

1923. Ceracris nigricornis nigricornis : Uvarov, Ent. Mitt. Berl., 14: 13.

Material examined: Motichur Range, Motichur, 15 male, 1 female, 16.ix.1966 (Coll. A. Singh and party); Ramgarh Range, Phandowala, 2 male, 28.v.2014, Regd.No.A-13208, A-12954 (Coll. N. Sharma and party).

Diagnosis: Ground colour brownish-green or olive green; face and pronotum coarsely punctured; black lateral fascia on the head and upper margin of pronotal lobes, not extending on the disc of metazona; tegmina with anal field green or olive-green; hind femora more or less reddish, especially below with a narrow pale pre-apical ring preceded by a narrow blackish ring; hind knee black but in female its lobes pale; hind tibiae dirty-bluish with the base black, a pale post basal ring, followed by blackish ring.

Distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, China, Myanmar, Twian, Thailand, Vietnam.