Scoloposcelis parallela ( Motschulsky, 1863 )

Ballal, Chandish R., Akbar, Shahid Ali, Yamada, Kazutaka, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad & Varshney, Richa, 2018, Annotated catalogue of the flower bugs from India (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae, Lasiochilidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1), pp. 207-226 : 220

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0018
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3704365
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scientific name	Scoloposcelis parallela ( Motschulsky, 1863 )
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Scoloposcelis parallela ( Motschulsky, 1863)

Anthocoris parallelus Motschulsky, 1863: 89 . LECTOTYPE: (designated by KERZHNER & JANSSON 1985: 38): remnants of a specimen, Sri Lanka, Nura-Ellia [= Nuwara Eliya] Mts. (ZMUM).

Sesellius parallelus: DISTANT (1904): 222 (new combination).

Scoloposcelis parallela : POPPIUS (1909): 25 (new combination).

Material examined. INDIA: ANDAMAN NICOBAR ISLANDS: Andaman Islands, Havelock Island, v.1997, 1 5 ♀♀, K. & S. Majer lgt. ( NMPC) .

Distribution in India. Andaman Islands: Havelock Island (this paper); Meghalaya: Garo Hills, Dainadubi (MURALEEDHARAN 1977a); Tamil Nadu: Madras [= Chennai] ( MURALEEDHARAN & ANANTHAKRISHNAN 1978b).

General distribution. Sri Lanka ( DISTANT 1906), Indonesia ( POPPIUS 1909), Philippines ( POPPIUS 1909), Taiwan ( POPPIUS 1915), Micronesia ( Guam for USINGER, 1946; Caroline Is., Mariana Is. for HERRING 1967), Australia ( CASSIS & GROSS 1995), Papua New Guinea ( CASSIS & GROSS 1995), China ( BU & ZHENG 2001), Japan ( YAMADA et al 2016a).

Biology. It lives under the bark of fallen trees (mainly Erythrina indica ), living among large colonies of Ecacanthothrips sanguineus and Dinothrips sumatrensis Bagnall, 1908, feeding on their eggs and larvae (MURALEEDHARAN 1977a, MURALEEDHARAN & ANANTHAKRISHNAN 1978b, BALLAL & YAMADA 2016).