Coridius ianus (Fabricius, 1775)

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 : 70

11. Coridius ianus (Fabricius, 1775)

1775. Cimax ianus Fabr, Syst. Ent. , 714.

1992. Coridius ianus Lis, Ann. Upper Silesian Mus. Ent., 3:38 .

Material examined: 1ex, Rabindra Bharoti Biswabidhalay Campus, Dum Dum, Dist. Kolkata, 29.1 v. 2015, P.C. Saha Coll.

Diagnostic characters: Body oval, reddish brown except head, antennae, anterior part of pronotum, proximal half of scutellum, and membrane black in colour, body ventrally and legs black. Third joint antennae a little longer than first and shorter than remaining joints.

Length: 16 to 20 m.m.

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Kolkata); Assam, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu. Elsewhere: Myanmar, Sri Lanka.