An account of Heteropteran Bugs collected by Light Trap in and around Dum Dum (Kolkata), West Bengal
Author
Chandra, Kailash
Author
Saha, P. C.
Author
Biswas, B.
Author
Hassan, M. E.
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Praveen, K.
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Kushwaha, Sandeep
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Mukherjee, Paramita
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India
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21.
Nysius ceylonicus
(Motschulsky, 1863)
1863.
Hetergaster ceylanicus
Motschulsky,
Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscu
.
,
36
: 78.
1904.
Nysius ceylanicus
, Distant,
Fauna Brit.
India
. Rhynchota
,
2
: 18.
1988.
Nysius ceylanicus
: Mukhopadhyay,
Rec. zool. Surv.
India
. Occ. Paper
No
.
107
: 20.
1994.
Nysius ceylanicus
: Chakraborty
et al
.,
State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of
West Bengal
, Part
5
: 424.
2016.
Nysius ceylanicus
: Saha
et al
.;
Rec. zool. Surv.
India
,
116
(2): 167.
Material examined
: 2 exs, Raja Bagan, Dum Dum, Dist. Kolkata,
5.v. 2014
, P.C.Saha Coll.; 1ex, Raja Bagan, Dum Dum, Dist. Kolkata,
4.vii.2014
, P.C.Saha Coll. (light trap)
Diagnostic characters
: Body black, posterior area of pronotum, corium, antennae and legs brown. Eyes prominent, head as wide as maximum width of pronotum.
Length
:
3- 4 m
.m.
Distribution
:
India
:
West Bengal
(Dist. Kolkata),
Chhattisgarh
,
Jharkhand
,
Sikkim
,
Uttarakhand
.
Elsewhere
:
China
, Java,
Nepal
,
Sri Lanka
, Sumatra.