New species and interesting records of acrididae (Orthoptera) from Northeast India

Abstract

One new genus and ten new species of Acrididae are described from India. The new taxa are in Oxyinae Lemba motinagar sp. n. from Meghalaya, Oxytauchira jaintia sp. n. from Meghalaya, in Copacridinae Eucoptacra abbreviata sp. n. from Manipur, and in Catantopinae Assamacris spinipicta sp. n. from Manipur, Genimen lailad sp. n. from Meghalaya, Genimen amarpur sp. n. from South Tripura, Apalniacris gen. n., Apalniacris Jalpaiguri sp. n. from West Bengal, Apalniacris damphasp. n. from Mizoram, Apalniacris ukhrul sp. n. from Manipur, and Apalniacris shillongsp. n. from Meghalaya. A short-winged variant of Oxya velox (Fabricius, 1787) is reported from Mizoram. A third species of Genimen, probably Genimen yunnanensis Zheng et al., 1988, is reported for the first time from India (Manipur). Types and other voucher specimens are in the collection of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta.