Polytoxus maculates Distant 1903

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 : 67

1. Polytoxus maculates Distant 1903

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Material examined: 1ex, Rabindra Bharoti

Viswabidhyaloy campus, Dum Dum, Dist. Kolkata,

16.iv.2015, P.C. Saha Coll.

Diagnostic characters: Body pale brown, posterior pronotal lobe reddish to brown; scutellum black with light brown spine; fore wings and legs pale orange brown; spots on the body, margins of abdomen, femora apices, tibiae (bases and apices), and tarsi black in colour; base of first joint brownish yellow; legs pilose, hind femora about as long as the abdomen, pronotum centrally sulcate, and foveate on each lateral area.

Length: 12 m. m.

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Dist. Kolkata). Elsewhere: Myanmar.