Allorhynchium metallicum ( de Saussure, 1852 )

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Allorhynchium metallicum ( de Saussure, 1852)

Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore , GKVK, 916 m, 14.vi, 28 . vi.1980, 1 ♂, 1♀, coll. G.T.V Reddy; 10. vii.1979, 1 ♀, coll. Ghorpade; 7. vi.1980, 1 ♂, coll. R.S. Swamy; 19. vii.1980, 2 ♀, BNN-16; 930 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 26. ii.2012, 1 ♀; 4, 19, 28. v.2012, 4 ♀; 18. x.2012, 1 ♀; 1. ii.2014, 1 ♂, coll. A. Pannure; 24.ix, 6. xi.2011, 1 ♀, 1Ƌ, coll. T.V. Aswathy; 2. vii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. S. Subhash; 8. x.2012, 3 ♀, coll. M.K. Prabhavati; 5.vi, 1, 17. vii.2014, 3 ♀, coll. S. Rathod; Sadahalli, 906 m, 13°12' N 77°38' E, 17. xi.2014, 1 Ƌ, coll. Zameeroddin. Hoskote ( Gotipura forest ), 15. v.1982, 1 ♂, coll. B. Mallik . Bidar , 25. ii.1982, 1 ♂, coll. V.V. Belavadi. Chikkaballapur, Skandagiri hills, 900 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 11 . i.2015, 1 ♀; 1393 m, 13°25' N 77°40' E, 11. i.2015, 4 ♂, 1♀, coll. Zameer. Chikkamagaluru, Mudigere , 975 m, 13°06' N 75°37' E, 1♂, coll. Not known . Hassan, Agriculture college, 950 m, 12°58' N 76°16' E, 2013, 1♂, coll. students. Koppal, Munirabad, 14 . x.2013, 1 ♀, coll. S. Najeer. Ramanagara, Mekedaatu , 19. vii.1980, 1 ♀, coll. R.S. Swamy ; Sangama , 19. vi.1980, 2 Ƌ, coll. A.R.V Kumar. Kerala: Kannur, Madayipara, 38 m, 12°01' N 75°15' E, 13 . viii.2015, 2 ♀, coll. C. Prashantha.

Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep Islands, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu (Chennai); Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Kolkata, Barrackpore, Ranget valley.— Indonesia [ Moluccas], Malaysia [ Sarawak], Maldive Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan ( Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015a, b; Girish Kumar et al. 2016).