Chitaura indica

Chitaura indica is a species of grasshopper found in South India.^[2] It was described by Boris Uvarov in 1929 based on specimens collected from Siddapura in the Karnataka part of the Western Ghats. Despite his original paper introduction mentioning that the holotype of this species along with nine other described by him in the paper was deposited in Natural History Museum of Geneva collections, it was the paratype that was actually deposited in the Geneva collections.^[3]

Chitaura indica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Oxyinae
Genus:	Chitaura
Species:	C. indica
Binomial name
Chitaura indica Uvarov, 1929[1]