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Orius (Dimorphella) dravidiensis Muraleedharan 1977

  • 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

Orius (Dimorphella) dravidiensis Muraleedharan, 1977

Orius (Heterorius) dravidiensis Muraleedharan, 1977b: 234. HOLOTYPE:, India, Tamil Nadu, Tanjore (ZSI).

Orius (Dimorphella) dravidiensis: YAMADA et al (2016b): 1148 (subgeneric placement).

Material examined. INDIA: KARNATAKA: Bangalore, Attur, i.2013, on mango tree, 2 (TKPM); Bangalore, Hebbel, iii.2012, 1 1 ♀ (NBAIR); Kanakapura, xii.2013, 1 ♀ (NBAIR); Bangalore outskirts, Savandurga, vi.2015, 1 4 ♀♀ (TKPM, NBAIR)..

Distribution in India. Karnataka: Attur, Hebbel, Kanakapura, Savandurga (this paper); Tamil Nadu: Tanjore (MURALEEDHARAN 1977b).

General distribution. Cambodia, Thailand (YAMADA et al. 2016b).

Biology. In India, this species has been collected from Peltophorum ferrugineum, mango (Mangifera indica), Butea, Pongamia, Cassia rosea, Lagerstromia, mulberry (Morus sp.), Acacia dealbata, and was associated with thrips (this paper).

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 207-226 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1) on page 217, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0018, http://zenodo.org/record/3699210

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References

  • MURALEEDHARAN N. 1977 a: Notes on a collection of Lyctocorinae (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) from Garo Hills (Meghalaya). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 73: 239 - 246.
  • MURALEEDHARAN N. 1977 b: Some genera of Anthocorinae (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) from south India. Entomon 2: 231 - 236.
  • YAMADA K., YASUNAGA T. & ARTCHAWAKOM T. 2016 b: The flower bug genus Orius Wolff, 1811 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae: Oriini) of Thailand. Journal of Natural History 50: 17 - 18.