Pyrrhopeplus posthumus Horvath

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i2/2017/118012
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scientific name	Pyrrhopeplus posthumus Horvath
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9. Pyrrhopeplus posthumus Horvath

1863. Pyrrhocoris carduelis Stal, Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr. ,: 7.

1892. Pyrrhopeplus carduelis var. posthumus :Horvath, Termesz.

Fuzetek., 15: 135.

1913. Pyrrhopeplus carduelis var. posthumus : Bergroth, Mem. Soc.

Ent. Belg., 22: 172.

Material examined: 3exs, Balod F. R.H, Dist-Durg, Lat- 20 o 43′24.5″, Long-81 o 11′44.4″, Alt- 345m, 30.i.2014, S.K. Gupta & R. P. Gupta Party Coll .

Diagnostic characters: Body pale yellow with aslight tinge of brown, a round spot on corium near anterior angle, a central facia ventrally to the head, abdomen, tibiae and tarsai black; pronotum and scutellum darkly punctuate, haed and anterior transverse disc of pronotum impunctate.

Length: 9-11 m.m.

Distribution: India: Chhattisgarh (Dist-Durg), Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim. Elsewhere: Myanmar