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Eucoptacra praemorsa

Description

29. Eucoptacra praemorsa (Stål)

1860. Acridium (Catantops) praemorsum Stål, Kongl. Fregat. Eugen. Res. Omkring Jorden , 3: 330.

2006. Eucoptacra praemorsa: Mandal et.al., State Fauna Series, 13: Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 2, Zool. Surv. India,: 164.

Material examined: Dholkhand Range, Dholkhand, 1 male, 28.ii.2015 (Coll. N. Sharma and party).

Diagnosis: Medium-sized; frontal ridge between antennae about twice as broad as the interocular distance; fastigium of vertex parabolic, moderately narrow; antennae filiform; prosternal tubercle strongly widened apically, with slightly concave apical surface; tegmina with a faint indication of whitish callous fascia near the middle of median area; hind femur yellowish-brown or dark brown; male cerci in apical third incurved, down curved and laterally flattened; female subgenital plate with an angular projection on the posterior margin on either side of midline; male subgenital plate almost linear, compressed knife-like.

Distribution: India: Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

Elsewhere: China, Myanmar, Taiwan and Tenassaerim.

Notes

Published as part of Sharma, Narender, 2018, Acridoidea and Pyrgomorphoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera) of Rajaji National Park in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4), DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/132291, http://zenodo.org/record/13184027

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Biodiversity

Family
Acrididae
Genus
Eucoptacra
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stal
Species
praemorsa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Eucoptacra praemorsa (Stal, 1861) sec. Sharma, 2018