Mecomma amicus (Distant, 1909)

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 : 69

5. Mecomma amicus (Distant, 1909)

1909. Antiphilus amicus Distant, Ann. Mag . nat. Hist., 4 (8): 509-523.

1958. Mecomma amicus Carvalho, Arch. Mus. Nac. (Rio de J.), 47: 161.

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

Kolkata, 6.v. 2014, P.C. Saha Coll.

Diagnostic characters: Body black; corium more or less yellow, pilose; hind wing dusky with greenish reflections, margins of the cells black; rostrum and legs pale yellow to light brown, apices of tarsi black.

Length: 4.5 – 5 m.m.

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Dist. Kolkata,

Darjeeling), Manipur.