Nysius ceylonicus (Motschulsky, 1863)

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 : 73

21. Nysius ceylonicus (Motschulsky, 1863)

1863. Hetergaster ceylanicus Motschulsky, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscu. , 36: 78.

1904. Nysius ceylanicus, Distant, Fauna Brit. India. Rhynchota, 2: 18.

1988. Nysius ceylanicus : Mukhopadhyay, Rec. zool. Surv. India. Occ. Paper

No. 107: 20.

1994. Nysius ceylanicus : Chakraborty et al., State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of

West Bengal, Part 5: 424.

2016. Nysius ceylanicus : Saha et al.; Rec. zool. Surv. India, 116 (2): 167.

Material examined: 2 exs, Raja Bagan, Dum Dum, Dist. Kolkata, 5.v. 2014, P.C.Saha Coll.; 1ex, Raja Bagan, Dum Dum, Dist. Kolkata, 4.vii.2014, P.C.Saha Coll. (light trap)

Diagnostic characters: Body black, posterior area of pronotum, corium, antennae and legs brown. Eyes prominent, head as wide as maximum width of pronotum.

Length: 3- 4 m.m.

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Dist. Kolkata), Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Sikkim, Uttarakhand. Elsewhere: China, Java, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sumatra.