Elasmolomus sordidus (Fabricius, 1787)

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 : 71

13. Elasmolomus sordidus (Fabricius, 1787)

1787. Cimex sordidus Fabricius, Mant. Ins. , 2: 302.

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Paper No 107: 50.

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152.

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

Kolkata, 26.v.2014, P. C. Saha Coll. (light trap)

Diagnostic characters: Body brown with small dark brown patches on posterior half of pronotum, distal half of scutellum, corium. Anterior lobe of pronotum, base of scutellum and sternum and apical angles of corium dark reddish brown; abdomen ventrally pale reddish brown; lateral margins of pronotum and corium yellow, a prominent central line on pronotum and scutellum; membrane grey; antennal joints brown with dark brown shade distally; rostrum yellowish brown with basal joint reddish brown, apex black.

Length: 9 – 10 mm.

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Dist. Kolkata); Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttarakhand. Elsewhere: China, Myanmar, Sri Lanka.