Metochus uniguttatus (Thunberg, 1972)

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

12. Metochus uniguttatus (Thunberg, 1972)

1922. Pendulinus uniguttatus Thunberg, Hem. Rost. Cap. , 4: 6

1988. Metochus uniguttatus Mukhopadhyay, Rec. Zool. Surv. India. Occ.

Paper No 107: 5.

2016. Metochus uniguttatus Saha et al. , Rec. zool. surv. India, 116 (2): 150

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

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

Diagnostic characters: Body black, pronotum constricted in posterior half, lateral margins of corium yellowish brown, and two prominent spots, one on inner angle and another at base, an elongate light brown central spot on posterior lobe of pronotum, lateral margin of pronotum and legs pilose.

Length: 10-12 m.m.

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Kolkata); Assam, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand. Elsewhere: China, Myanmar, Malaya Archipelago, Phillipines, Sumatra, Sri Lanka.