Dysdercus koenigii (Fabricius, 1775)

Chandra, Kailash, Saha, P. C., Biswas, B., Hassan, M. E., Praveen, K., Kushwaha, Sandeep & Mukherjee, Paramita, 2020, An account of Heteropteran Bugs collected by Light Trap in and around Dum Dum (Kolkata), West Bengal, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (1), pp. 65-83 : 76

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v120/i1/2020/119563

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scientific name

Dysdercus koenigii (Fabricius, 1775)
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32. Dysdercus koenigii (Fabricius, 1775)

1775. Cimex koenigii Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 720.

1904. Dysdercus cingulatus : Distant, Fauna Brit. India, Rhynchota, 2:118

1914. Dysdercus koenigii Bergroth, Ent Mitt , 3: 355.

2010. Dysdercus koenigii : Saha & Bal, Fauna of Uttarakhand. State Fuana

Series, 18 (2): 248.

2016. Dysdercus koenigii : Saha et al. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 116 (3): 273.

Material examined: 1ex, Rabindra Bharoti Viswabidyalay Campus, Dum Dum, Dist. Kolkata, 18.iv. 2015, P.C. Saha Coll.

Diagnostic characters: Body reddish brown; basal joint of antennae, spots on corium, scutellum and membrane black in colour. Fore and mid femur and basal half of hind femur reddish brown. Anterior collar to pronotum creamy white.

Length: 9-16 mm.

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Dist. Kolkata); Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Uttarakahand. Elsewhere: Australia, Malayan Archipelago, Myanmar, Sri Lanka.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pyrrhocoridae

Genus

Dysdercus

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