Dieuches femoralis (Dohrn, 1860)

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

15. Dieuches femoralis (Dohrn, 1860)

1860. Dieuches femoralis Dohrn, Slett. Ent. Zeit. , 21: 405.

1988. Dieuches femoralis : Mukhopadhyay, Rec.Zool.Surv. India.Occ. Paper

No - 107:55 -56.

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

Series, 18 (2): 220.

2016. Dieuches femoralis : Saha et al.; Rec. Zool.Surv. India, 116 (2): 156-157.

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

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

Diagnostic characters: Head relatively broader; eyes black, the basal joint, apices of second and third joints and fourth joint of antennae black with red; basal half of corium not black but grey in colour.

Length: 9 -10 m.m.

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Dist. Kolkata), Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Sikkim. Elsewhere: China, Japan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand.