Piezodorus hybneri (Fabricius, 1790)

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

10. Piezodorus hybneri (Fabricius, 1790)

1790. Cimex hybneri Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. , 1 (4): 1517-2224.

2002. Piezodorus hybneri : Rider et al., Zoosyst Rossica, 2: 144.

Material examined: 1ex, Gopeswar Dutta free School Campus, Dum Dum, Dist. Kolkata, 29. iv. 2015, P.C. Saha coll.

Diagnostic characters: Body light green to light brown and punctuate; pronotum wider than long, with lateral margins yellow and a transverse pale or reddish brown fascia across pronotal angles. Clavus with a small black apical spot, basal lateral margins of corium and connexivum reddish brown. Hind wings yellow to light brown; body ventrally and legs greenish yellow. Antennae light brown, apex of the third, fourth and fifth joints reddish brown.

Length: 8 to 10 m.m.

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

Maharashtra, Sikkim. Elsewhere: Africa, Sri Lanka.