Halys dentatus (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

9. Halys dentatus (Fabricius, 1775)

1775. Hylus dentatus Fabricius, Syst. End. 702.

1902. Hylus dentatus : Distant, Fauna Brit. India. Rhynchota., 1: 119-120.

Material examined: 1ex, Seven Tanks Campus, Dist.

Kolkata, 26. iV. 2015, P.C. Saha Coll.

Diagnostic characters: Body brown coarsely and darkly punctuate and provided with black patched thorough out except antennae; head elongated, compound eye dark brown to black, connexivum alternately yellow and black; antennae brown, distal end of second and third joints and base of fifth joint brownish yellow, second subequal to fourth and third subequal fifth joints; rostrum passing fifth abdominal segment.

Length: 17 to 23 m.m.

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

Maharashtra, Karnataka. Elsewhere: Sri Lanka.