HEMIPTERA
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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/120289 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DBF53C-3875-C637-FF31-02051244FB5B |
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Felipe |
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HEMIPTERA |
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Order HEMIPTERA
Hemiptera (True Bugs) , is a very large and diverse order and also important in agriculture, known to cause direct damage to plants by herbivory and indirectly by transporting diseases. Predatory Hemiptera have also been used in agricultural systems to control pests
29 species belonging to 28 genera of hemipteran bugs from the tea gardens of North Bengal were reported. Of them, the family Pentatomidae shares the highest number of species (07), followed by Coreidae (04), Lygaeidae (03), Fulgoridae (03), Reduviidae (03), Cicadidae (02), Cercopidae (01), Membracidae (01), Largidae (01), Pyrrhocoridae (01), Scutelleridae (01), Miridae (01). 05 hemipteran species (*) were reported as pest of tea from North Bengal ( Table 4).
1 Leptataspis fulviceps (Dallas, 1850)
Family CICADIDAE
2* Huechys sanguinea (De Geer, 1773)
3 Paomponia picta (Walker, 1870)
Family FULGORIDAE
4 Lawana conspersa (Walker, 1851)
5 Ricania speculum (Walker, 1851)
6 Polydictya tricolor (Westwood, 1845)
Family MEMBRACIDAE
7 Darthula hardwicki (Gray, 1831)
Family COREIDAE
8 Cletus bipunctatus (Herrich-Schafer, 1840)
9 Riptortus linearis (Fabricius, 1775)
10 Riptortus pedestris (Fabricius, 1775)
11* Elasmomia granulipes (Westwood, 1842)
Family LYGAEIDAE
12 Paromius exiguous (Distant, 1883)
13 Metochus uniguttatus (Thunberg, 1879)
14 Graptostethus trisignatus (Distant, 1879)
Family PENTATOMIDAE
15* Halys dentatus (Fabricius, 1775)
16 Nezara viridula (Linnaeus, 1758)
17* Andrallus spinidens (Fabricius, 1787)
18 Tolumnia latipes (Dallas, 1851)
19 Erthesina fullo (Thunberg, 1783)
20 Plautia crossata (Stal, 1869)
21 Eocanthecona furcellata (Wolf, 1811)
Family LARGIDAE
22 Macroceraria grandis (Gray, 1832)
Family PYRRHOCORIDAE
23 Odontopus nigricornis (Stall, 1861)
24 Physopelta quadrigutta (Bergroth, 1894)
Family REDUVIIDAE
25 Vilius melanopterus (Stall, 1863)
26 Coranus spiniscutis (Reuter, 1881)
27 Triatoma rubrofasciatus (De Geer, 1773)
Family SCUTELLERIDAE
28 Cantao ocellatus (Thunberg, 1784)
Family MIRIDAE
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