Dieuches leucoceras (Walker, 1872)

Chandra, Kailash, Saha, P. C., Biswas, B., Hassan, M. E., Praveen, K., Kushwaha, Sandeep & Mukherjee, Paramita, 2020, An account of Heteropteran Bugs collected by Light Trap in and around Dum Dum (Kolkata), West Bengal, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (1), pp. 65-83 : 72

16. Dieuches leucoceras (Walker, 1872)

1872. Dieuches leucoceras Walker , cat, Hem. Het. B.M., 5: 98 -99.

1988. Dieuches leucoceras : Mukhopadhyay, Rec. Zool. Surv. India. Occ.

Paper No., 107: 56.

2010. Dieuches leucoceras : Saha & Bal, Fauna of Uttarakhand, State Fauna

Series 18 (2): 221.

2016. Dieuches leucoceras : Saha et al.; Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 116 (2): 157.

Material examined: 1ex, Raja Bagan, Dum Dum, Dist.

Kolkata, 5.v.2014, P.C.Saha Coll. (Light trap).

Diagnostic characters: Body black, head narrower, basal margins of corium and scutellum light brown. Eyes grey in colour.

Length: 8 to 10 m.m.

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Kolkata), Assam,

Chhattisgarh, Kashmir, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand.

Elsewhere: Australia, Iran, Sri Lanka.