Antilochus coqueberti (Fabricius, 1784)

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 : 76-77

34. Antilochus coqueberti (Fabricius, 1784)

1784. Cimex angur Fabricius , Nova Ins. Spec., 3: 58.

1902. Antilochus coqueberti : Distant, Fauna Brit. India, Rhynchota., 2: 101.

2007. Antilochus coqueberti : Saha et al., State Fauna Series, 5: Fauna of

Andhra Pradesh., Part- 3: 326-327.

2010. Antilochus coqueberti : Saha et al., State Fauna Series, 18: Fauna of

Uttarakhand., Part- 2: 249.

2016. Dysdercus koenigii : Saha et al., Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 116 (3): 272-273.

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

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

Diagnostic characters: Body blood red except apical parts of tibia, tarsus, membrane and antennae black. Corium thickly punctuate, fore femora with short and stout spined near apex.

Length: 14 – 16 mm

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Dist. Kolkata), Assam, Andaman Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kasmir, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh. Elsewhere: Myanmar, Sri Lanka.