Blaptostethus kumbi Rajasekhara, 1973

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 : 210

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.2478/aemnp-2018-0018
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3704472
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scientific name	Blaptostethus kumbi Rajasekhara, 1973
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Blaptostethus kumbi Rajasekhara, 1973:86 . HOLOTYPE:, India, Mysore , Mandya (NPCI).

Blaptostethus kambu (incorrect subsequent spelling): MURALEEDHARAN (1977b: 232).

Distribution in India. Karnataka: Mandya ( RAJASEKHARA 1973); New Delhi ( RAJASEKHARA 1973); Tamil Nadu (MURALEEDHARAN (1977b).

General distribution. Endemic.

Biology. Unlike most species of the genus which inhabit dead plant materials such as clusters of vegetable refuse and the nests of weaverbirds ( YAMADA 2008a), the species was reported to inhabit sugarcane leaves ( RAJASEKHARA 1973), however no further details regarding its biology were provided in the paper.

References

MURALEEDHARAN N. 1977 b: Some genera of Anthocorinae (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) from south India. Entomon 2: 231 - 236.

RAJASEKHARA K. 1973: A new species of Blaptostethus (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) from Mysore, India. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 66: 86 - 87.

YAMADA K. 2008 a: Blaptostethus aurivillus, a new flower bug (Heteroptera, Anthocoridae) from West Malaysia. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 14: 7 - 11.