Odontopus nigricornis, Stal

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 : 150-151

11. Odontopus nigricornis, Stal

1861. Odontopus nigricornis Stal, Stett. Ent. Zeit. , 22: 146.

1910. Odontopus nigricornis : Distant, Fauna Brit. India, Rhynchota ,

5: 96.

1994. Odontopus nigricornis : Sen et al., State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal, Part - 5: 441.

2010. Odontopus nigricornis : Saha et al., Fauna of Uttarakhand,

State Fauna Series, 18 (2): 252.

Material examined: 1ex, Badbhum F. R. H., Dist-Durg,

01. iv. 2014, S. K. Gupta & R. P. Gupta Party Coll .

Diagnostic characters: Body blood reddish or yellow with a slight tinge of brown; a round spot near apical armed with one or two spines; antennae with third joint shortest, second and third subequal in length. Anterior prominent spines.

Length: 16-22 mm.

Distribution: India: Chhattisgarh (Dist-Durg), Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere - Myanmar, Mandalay, Tenasserim.