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Issue: Vol. 5174 No. 1: 8 Aug. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-08-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.1.6
Page range: 85-92
Abstract views: 249
PDF downloaded: 18

Taxonomic redescription, distribution and rediscovery of Plicigastra himalayana Uvarov, 1924 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Platycleidini) from Western Himalaya

Section of Entomology, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India -202002.
Section of Entomology, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India -202002.
Section of Entomology, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India -202002
Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Av. Augusto Correa #1 66075-110, Belém, PA, Brazil. Grupo de Estudos de Artrópodes da Amazônia (GEAA).
Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Biyoloji Bölümü TR-14030 Bolu, Turkey
Orthoptera Tettigoniidae first record new species Plicigastra Kashmir

Abstract

In India the genus Plicigastra is represented by single species Plicigastra himalayana Cigliano et al. (2022). Uvarov (1924) reported the species from the Punjab region of India, based on only female specimens. The authors in the present paper described both male and female. Also, SEM images of male stridulatory file are given. The dark flightless Bush-cricket species is widespread in the forested region of northern part of Kashmir, which starts from Baramulla to Bandipora, situated at an elevation of 3200 m a.s.l and is part of the Western Himalayan Mountain mixed forest Eco region.

 

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