Orius indicus ( Reuter, 1884 )

Ballal, Chandish R., Akbar, Shahid Ali, Yamada, Kazutaka, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad & Varshney, Richa, 2018, Annotated catalogue of the flower bugs from India (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae, Lasiochilidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1), pp. 207-226 : 219

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scientific name	Orius indicus ( Reuter, 1884 )
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Orius indicus ( Reuter, 1884)

Triphleps indicus Reuter, 1884: 101 . LECTOTYPE (designated by GHAURI 1972a: 409): ♀, India, Bengalia (ZMUC).

Orius indicus : GHAURI (1972a): 409 (treated as Orius View in CoL without any comment on the new generic combination).

Distribution in India. Kerala: Calicut (= Kozhikode) ( MURALEEDHARAN & ANANTHAKRISHNAN 1974a); Tamil Nadu: Madras [= Chennai], Kovilpatti ( MURALEEDHARAN &ANANTHAKRISHNAN 1974a); West Bengal ( GHAURI 1972a).

General distribution. Endemic.

Biology. The species is known to feed on thrips including Gynaikothrips fucorum (Marchal, 1908); Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood, 1919; Megalurothrips nigricornis (Schmutz, 1913), and Taeniothrips nigricornis (Schmutz, 1913) ( RAJASEKHARA & CHATTERJI 1970, ANANTHAKRISHNAN & SURESHKUMAR 1985).

Note. The subgeneric placement of the species has not been established yet.

References

ANANTHAKRISHNAN T. N. & SURESHKUMAR N. 1985: Anthocorids (Anthocoridae: Heteroptera) as efficient biocontrol agents of thrips (Thysanoptera: Insecta). Current Science 54: 987 - 990.

GHAURI M. S. K. 1972 a: The identity of Orius tantillus (Motschulsky) and notes on Oriental Anthocoridae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Journal of Natural History 6: 409 - 421.

MURALEEDHARAN N. & ANANTHAKRISHNAN T. N. 1974 a: New and little known species of Orius Wolff from South India. Oriental Insects 8: 37 - 41.

RAJASEKHARA K. & CHATTERJI S. 1970: Biology of Orius indicus a predator of Taeniothrips nigricornis. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 63: 364 - 367.

REUTER O. M. 1884: Monographia Anthocoridarum Orbis terrestris. Helsingforsiae, 204 pp. [Also published in Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 14 [1885]: 555 - 758.]