Bilia castanea
Authors/Creators
- 1. National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, India; e-mail: ballalchandish @ gmail. com
- 2. Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Srinagar, 190007 India; e-mail: kingakbarali @ gmail. com
- 3. Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Bunka-no-Mori Park, Mukoterayama, Hachiman-cho, Tokushima, 770 - 8070 Japan;
- 4. Department of Zoology, Government Degree College, Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, 192303 India; e-mail: aijaz _ shoorida @ yahoo. co. in
Description
Bilia castanea (Carvalho, 1951)
Biliola castanea Carvalho, 1951: 388. HOLOTYPE: ♀, India, Karnataka, Nandidrug Hill [= Nandi Hills] (BMNH).
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE:, ‘Type’ [printed circle with red border], ‘n.s.’ [handwritten], ‘S. India: / Nandidrug Hill. / 4,500 feet’ [printed], ‘Pres. by / Dr. T. V. Campbell. / B.M.1928-189’ [printed], ‘Biliola / castanea n. sp. / J.C.M. Carvalho det. 1951’ [handwritten + printed] (BMNH).
Additional material examined. INDIA: KARNATAKA: Bangalore, 11.vii.2011, 1 1 ♀ (TKPM). TAMIL NADU: Hosur, Salem, iv.2015, 4 ♀♀ (TKPM, NBAIR).
Distribution in India. Karnataka: Bangalore, Nandi Hills (CARVALHO 1951, YASUNAGA et al. 2016b); Tamil Nadu: Hosur, Salem (this paper); West Bengal (GHOSH et al. 1981).
General distribution. China (Hainan), Taiwan (PÉRICART 1996, BU & ZHENG 2001).
Biology. The species inhabits plantations of Brassica nigra, grape (Vitis sp.), Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, Zizyphus, mulberry (Morus sp.), brinjal (Solanum melongena) and is reported to feed on thrips, the aphid Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach, 1843) and the two spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae (GHOSH et al. 1981, BALLAL & YAMADA 2016). This species has also been observed feeding on aphids and the eggs and nymphs of cicadellids (CARAYON & MIYAMOTO 1960).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Carvalho
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Anthocoridae
- Genus
- Bilia
- Species
- castanea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bilia castanea (Carvalho, 1951) sec. Ballal, Akbar, Yamada, Wachkoo & Varshney, 2018
References
- CARVALHO J. C. M. 1951: New genera and species of Isometopidae in the collection of the British Museum of Natural History (Hemiptera). Anais de Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 23: 381 - 391.
- YASUNAGA T., YAMADA K., SOE Z. & NAING S. S. 2016 b: First records of two flower bug genera from Myanmar (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae: Anthocorinae: Oriini), with description of a new species of Bilia Distant. Zootaxa 4158: 544 - 556.
- GHOSH D., PODDAR S. & RAYCHAUDHURI D. N. 1981: Natural enemy complex of Aphis craccivora Koch. and Lipaphis erysimi (Kalt.) in and around Calcutta, West Bengal. Science and Culture 47: 58 - 60.
- PERICART J. 1996: Family Anthocoridae Fieber, 1836 - flower bugs, minute pirate bugs. Pp. 108 - 140. In: AUKEMA B. & RIEGER CH. (eds.): Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 2. Cimicomorpha I. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xiv + 361 pp.
- BU W. - J. & ZHENG L. - Y. 2001: Hemiptera. Lasiochilidae. Lyctocoridae. Anthocoridae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta. Vol. 24. Science Press, Beijing, vii + 267 pp (in Chinese, with English summary).
- BALLAL C. R. & YAMADA K. 2016: Anthocorid predators. Pp. 329 - 366. In: OMKAR (eds): Ecofriendly pest management for food security. Elsevier, London, 727 pp.
- CARAYON J. & MIYAMOTO S. 1960: Especes nouvelles ou peu connues du genre Bilia Distant trouvees au Japon et a Formose (Heteroptera, Anthocoridae). Mushi 33: 19 - 35.