Macroceroea grandis (Gray)

Saha, P. C., Biswas, B., Hassan, M. E., Chandra, Kailash, Kushwaha, Sandeep & Praveen, K., 2017, On an account of superfamily Phyyrocoroidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Chhattishgarh, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (2), pp. 146-153 : 147

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i2/2017/118012
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scientific name	Macroceroea grandis (Gray)
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1. Macroceroea grandis (Gray)

1832. Lygaeus grandis Gray ,, Ins ., 2: 242.

1904. Lohita grandis, Distant, Fauna Brit. India, Rhynchota , 2: 95.

2010. Macroceroea grandis : Saha and Bal. Fauna of Uttarakhand,

State Fauna Series, 18 (2): 246.

Material examined: 1ex, Badbhum F. R. H., Dist-Durg, Lat-20 o 14’19. 7’’, Long-81 o 59′49. 1″, Alt- 440m, 30. iii. 2014, S. K. Gupta & R. P. Gupta Party Coll .

Diagnostic characters: Body elongate with a central elongate spot to clavus, a large somewhat rounded spot, variable in size, near inner angle of the corium and the legs as long as head and pronotum together, in the female a little longer than head and pronotum together. Legs long,

beneath and distinctly spined towards apex.

Length: Male 40-54, Female 28-33 m.m.

Distribution: India: Chhattisgarh (Durg); Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Myanmar, Sumatra, Philippines.