Dysdercus koenigii (Fabricius)

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 : 149

6. Dysdercus koenigii (Fabricius)

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 and Bal, Fauna of Uttarakhand, State

Fuana Series, 18 (2): 248.

Material examined: 2exs, Badbhum F. R. H., Dist-Durg, Lat-20 o 19′14. 7″, Long-81 o 59′49. 7″, Alt- 440 m, 29. iii. 2014, S. K. Gupta & R. P. Gupta Coll; 1ex, Badbhum F. R. H., Dist-Durg, Lat-N20 o 14′19. 7″, Long-E81 o 59′49. 7″, Alt- 440m, 28. iii. 2014, S. K. Gupta & R. P. Gupta Party Coll; 1ex, Badbhum F. R. H, Dist-Durg, Lat-20 o 34′22. 5″, Long-81 o 19′4. 4″, Alt- 419 m, 3. ii. 2014, S. K. Gupta & R. P. Gupta Party Coll; 4exs, 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; 1ex, Rapa, Dist-Koriya, 06. xi. 2011, Mandal & Party Coll .

Diagnostic characters: Body yellow brown; Head, rostrum, lateral margin of pronotum, body ventrally reddish brown; antennae, scutellum, apex of rostrum, a discal spot to corium, membrane, legs, black. Anterior margin of prosternum, posterior margin of sterna and abdominal segments and anterior collar to pronotum creamy white.

Length: 9-16 mm.

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