Physopelta gutta (Burmeister) 1834

Saha, P. C., Biswas, B., Hassan, M. E., Chandra, Kailash, Kushwaha, Sandeep & Praveen, K., 2017, On an account of superfamily Phyyrocoroidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Chhattishgarh, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (2), pp. 146-153 : 147-148

3. Physopelta gutta (Burmeister) 1834

1834. Lygaeus (Pyrrhocoris) gutta Burmeister , Nova. Acta. Acad. Leop. Carolxvi, suppl.,: 424.

1902. Physopelta gutta : Distant, Fauna Brit. India, Rhynchota ., 11: 97.

2010. Physopelta gutta : Saha and Bal. Fauna of Uttarakhand. State Fauna Series, 18 (2): 247

Material examined: 2 exs, Badbhum F. R. H., Dist-Durg, Lat-20 o 14′19. 7″, Long-81 o 59′49.1″, Alt- 440m, 1. iv. 2014, S. K. Gupta & R. P. Gupta Party Coll; 1ex, Badbhum F. R. H., Dist-Durg, lat-20 o 14′19. 7″, Long-81 o 59′49. 8″, Alt- 440m, 31. iii. 2014, S. K. Gupta & R. P. Gupta Party Coll; 2exs, Badbhum F. R. H., Dist-Durg, Lat-20 o 14′19. 7″, Long-82 o 59’49. 1’’, Alt- 440m, 01. iv. 2014, S. K. Gupta & R. P. Gupta Party Coll .

Diagnostic characters: Body dull reddish yellow with a slight tinge of brown; antennae, large basal spot to head, pronotum, sctellum, and basal area of corium fuscous; a discal rounded spot and apical angles of corium and the membrane black; rostrum, sterum, legs, abdominal incisures and three sublateral spots Black; lateral margins angle of membrane, coxae, trochanters and femora beneath dull-reddish yellow with a slight tinge of brown; body pilose; base of apical joint of antennae yellow with a slight tinge of brown.

Length: 15-17mm

Distribution: India: Chhattisgarh (Dist-Durg), Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Australia, Borneo, Myanmar, China, Japan, Java, Philippines, Sumatra, Sri Lanka.