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On an Account of Reduviidae (Hempitera) from Chhattisgarh, India ISSN 0375-151135 BISWAS et al.: On an account of Reduviidae (Hempitera) from Chhattisgarh, India ISSN 0375-151135 Rec. zool. Surv. India : 114(Part-1) : 35-55, 2014 ON AN ACCOUNT OF REDUVIIDAE (HEMPITERA) FROM CHHATTISGARH, INDIA B. BISWAS, PARAMITA MUKHERJEE, KAILASH CHANDRA, M. E. HASSAN AND SANDEEP KUSHWAHA** Zoological Survey of India, M, Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053 ** Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional Centre, Vijay Nagar, Jabalpur-482002 INTRODUCTION The classifi cation of the family has been mainly adopted after Ambrose (2006). The work is The family Reduviidae is the largest family based on the recent collections made by different of predaceous terrestrial hemiptera and a few are survey parties of CAMPA Project. blood suckers. Some of them are pathogenic and transmit various diseases to man and animals. SYSTEMATIC LIST Members of this family are commonly known as “Assassin bugs”. These are small to large, robust Suborder HETEROPTERA or elongated, somewhat fl attened, smooth, hairy Infraorder CIMICOMORPHA or spiny bugs, which may vary in size ranging Family REDUVIIDAE from 2 to 40 mm. Subfamily I. TRIBELOCEPHALINAE This family is represented globally by more than 6878 species and subspecies under 981 Genus 1. Tribelocephala Stål, 1853 genera belonging to 25 subfamilies (Henry, 2009). 1. Tribelocephala indica (Walker, 1873) Of which 465 species under 144 genera belonging Subfamily II. HARPACTORINAE to 14 subfamilies (Ambrose, 2006) are recorded Genus 2. Polididus Stål, 1858 from India. Earlier 417 species under 133 genera belonging to 13 subfamilies are recorded from 2. Polididus armatissimus Stål, 1859 Indian region (Distant, 1904, 1910). Only 13 Genus 3. Sycanus Amyot & Serville, 1843 species under 10 genera of the family Reduviidae *3. Sycanus collaris (Fabricius, 1785) were known so far from Chhattisgarh (Biswas & *4. Sycanus croceovittatus Dohrn., 1859 Ghosh 1995, Chandra & Kushwaha, 2012). The Genus 4. Coranus Curtis, 1833 present paper is the fi rst consolidated account on the assassin bugs fauna of Chhattisgarh, which *5. Coranus siva Kirkaldy, 1891 includes 32 species under 23 genera belonging to Genus 5. Rihirbus Stål, 1861 7 subfamilies. Of these, 24 species belonging to 18 *6. Rihirbus trochantericus Stål, 1861 genera under 6 subfamilies marked with asterisks Genus 6. Euagoras Burmiester, 1835 (*) constitute new record from the state. General 7. Euagoras plagiatus (Burmiester, 1834) characters of the group, keys to various taxa, Genus 7. Rhynocoris Kolenati, 1857 diagnostic characters, synonymies, distribution in India and elsewhere under each species are *8. Rhynocoris fuscipes (Fabricius, 1787) also provided. *9. Rhynocoris marginatus (Fabricius, 1794) 36 Rec. zool. Surv. India *10. Rhynocoris squalus (Distant, 1904) Subfamily VII. REDUVIINAE Genus 8. Sphedanolestes Stål, 1866 Genus 22. Gerbelius Distant, 1903 *11. Sphedanolestes variabilis Distant, 1904 *31. Gerbelius ornatus Distant, 1903 Subfamily III. STENOPODAINAE Genus 23. Acanthaspis Amyot & Serville, 1843 Genus 9. Pygolampis Germar, 1817 *32. Acanthaspis quinquespinosa (Fabricius, *12. Pygolampis foeda Stål, 1859 1781) 13. Pygolampis unicolor Walker, 1873 *33. Acanthaspis siva Distant, 1904 Genus10. Sastrapada Amyot & Serville, 1843 34. Acanthaspis sexguttata (Fabricius, 1775) 14. Sastrapada baerensprungi (Stål, 1859) Genus 11. Oncocephalus Klug, 1830 35. Acanthaspis fl avipes Stål, 1855 *15. Oncocephalus impudicus Reuter, 1882 36. Acanthaspis fulvipes (Dallas, 1850) *16. Oncocephalus schioedtei Reuter, 1882 37. Acanthaspis luteipes Walker, 1873 Subfamily IV. ECTRICHODIINAE SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT Genus 12. Haematorrhophus Stål, 1874a Key to the Subfamilies of the *17. Haematorrhophus tuberculatus (Stål, Family REDUVIIDAE 1874) 1. Ocelli present................................................2 Genus 13. Scadra Stål, 1859 *18. Scadra fuscicrus Stål, 1859 - Ocelli absent ...... .TRIBELOCEPHALINAE 19. Scadra annulipes Reuter, 1881 2. Hemelytra with a quadrangular areolet or Genus 14. Ectrychotes Burmiester, 1835 cell at interior area of corium near base of *20. Ectrychotes atripennis (Stål, 1866) membrane .................... HARPACTORINAE 21. Ectrychotes dispar Reuter, 1881 - Hemelytra without a quadrangular areolet or Subfamily V. PEIRATINAE cell at interior area of corium near base of membrane .....................................................3 Genus 15. Sirthenea Spinola, 1840 *22. Sirthenea fl avipes (Stål, 1855) 3. Hemelytra with a discoidal areolet or cell Genus 16. Catamiarus Amy. & Serville, 1843 somewhat hexangular and touching base of *23. Catamiarus brevipennis (Serville, 1831) membrane or largely triangular ..................... .......................................STENOPODANIAE Genus 17. Ectomocoris Mayr, 1865 *24. Ectomocoris simulans Distant, 1919 - Hemelytra without a discoidal areolet or *25. Ectomocoris cordiger Stål, 1866 cell .................................................................4 Genus 18. Lestomerus Amyot & Serville, 1843 4. Scutellum with its apex broad and 2 or 3 *26. Lestomerus sanctus (Fabricius, 1787) spined ............................ ECTRICHODIINAE Genus 19. Spilodermus Stål, 1868 - Scutellum with its apex triangular or 27. Spilodermus quadrinotatus (Fabricius, subtriangular .................................................5 1798) Genus 20. Cleptocoris Stål, 1866 5. Pronotum constricted behind middle............. ................................................PEIRATINAE *28. Cleptocoris lepturoides (Wolff, 1804) 29. Cleptocoris atromaculatus Stål, 1874 - Pronotum constricted before or near middle ......................................................................6 Subfamily VI. SALYAVATINAE Genus 21. Lisarda Stål, 1859 6. Anterior tarsi 2- jointed…SALYAVATINAE *30. Lisarda annulosa Stål, 1874 - Anterior tarsi 3-jointed .........REDUVIINAE BISWAS et al.: On an account of Reduviidae (Hempitera) from Chhattisgarh, India 37 Subfamily I. TRIBELOCEPHALINAE - Anterior tibiae simple, not inwardly spined Genus 1. Tribelocephala Stål, 1853 before apex ...................................................5 5. Head armed with a spine or tubercle behind 1853. Tribelocephala Stål, Ofv. Vet.- Ak. Forh., p. 220. the base of each antenna; lateral pronotal angle 1. Tribelocephala indica (Walker, 1873) spinous ............................................................ (Plate I, Fig. 1) .....................................Euagoras Burmiester 1873. Opistoplatys indica Walker, Cat. Het., 8: 20. - Head without a spine or tubercle behind the 1904. Tribelocephala indica : Distant, Fauna Brit. India, base of each antenna; lateral pronotal angle Rhynchota, 2: 220. smooth ...........................................................6 2006. Tribelocephala indica : Ambrose, Zoos’ Print Journ., 21(9): 27. 6. Posterior lobe of pronotum not longitudinally impressed ......................Rhynocoris Kolenati Material examined: 2 exs., Barnawapara, Dist. Raipur, 6.VII.2011, coll. Sunil and party; - Posterior lobe of pronotum longitudinally 2 exs., Barnawapara, Dist. Raipur, 16.VIII.2011, impressed .......................Sphedanolestes Stål coll. Sunil and party; 1ex., Barnawapara, Dist. Genus 2. Polididus Stal, 1858 Raipur, 9.VII.2011, coll. Sunil and party; 1 ex., 1858. Polididus Stål, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh., :448. Barnawapara, Dist. Raipur, 18.VII.2011, coll. Sunil and party. 2. Polididus armatissimus Stål, 1859 (Plate I, Fig. 2) Diagnostic character: Body chocolate brownish in colour, densely tomentose; membranes with 1859. Polididus armatissimus Stål, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh., : veins darker; rostrum, body beneath and legs 376. pale; head little longer than pronotum which is 1904. Polididus armatissimus : Distant, Fauna Brit. India, moderately granulate; antennae with long hairs. Rhynchota, 2: 386. Length: 11-13 mm. 2006. Polididus armatissimus : Ambrose, Zoos’ Print Journ., Distribution: India: Chhattisgarh (Raipur), 21(9): 11 North Bengal. Elsewhere: Sri Lanka. Material examined : 1 ex., Barnawapara, Dist. Subfamily II. HARPACTORINAE Raipur, 16.VIII.2011, coll. Sunil and party; 1 ex., Key to the genera of the Barnawapara, Dist. Raipur, 11.XI.2011, coll. Sunil Subfamily HARPACTORINAE and party; 1ex., Sankra R.H., Dist. Dhamtari, 18.X.2011, coll. Sunil and party. 1. All femora spined ...................Polididus Stål Diagnostic character : Pale brownish yellow - All femora unarmed .....................................2 in colour; abdomen beneath with black fasciae 2. Abdomen on each side much dilated............ on each side; sternum pilose; anterior pronotal ..........................Sycanus Amyot. & Serville angle with greyish narrow vittae; head with long - Abdomen not dilated on each side .............3 spines at base of each antennae and with smaller discal spines; pronotum spinose, with two erect 3. Antennae long, its fi rst joint as long as or long spines on anterior lobe and long lateral spines longer than head ...........................................4 on posterior lobe; femora and tibiae spinous. - Antennae short, its fi rst joint not longer than Length : 10 mm. head ....................................... Coranus Curtis Distribution : India : Chhattisgarh (Raipur, 4. Anterior tibiae incurved and spined before Dhamtari), Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, West apex ...........................................Rihirbus Stål Bengal. Elsewhere : China, Japan, Sri Lanka. 38 Rec. zool. Surv. India Genus 3. Sycanus Amyot & Serville, 1843 1904. Sycanus croceovittatus : Distant, Fauna Brit. India, Rhynchota, 2: 352. 1843. Sycanus Amy. & Serv., Hem.,:
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