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Blaptostethus pallescens Poppius 1909

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

Blaptostethus pallescens Poppius, 1909

(Figs 16–17, 22–24)

Blaptostethus piceus var. pallescens Poppius, 1909: 41. SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, India, Bombay [= Mumbai] (MCSN); 1 spec., Kenya, ‘Ostafrika, Waboniland’ (NHMW).

Blaptostethus pallescens: CARAYON (1972a): 329 (upgraded to species rank).

Material examined. INDIA: KARNATAKA: Bangalore, unknown date and collector, 17 9 ♀♀ (TKPM, NBAIR).

Distribution in India. Karnataka: Bangalore (BALLAL et al. 2009); Maharashtra: Mumbai (POPPIUS 1909); Tamil Nadu: Madras [= Chennai], Coimbatore (MURALEEDHARAN 1977b).

General distribution. Réunion (CARAYON 1958b, as Lasiochiloides pleneti), Egypt (TAWFIK & EL- HUSSEINI 1971), East Africa (PÉRICART 1996), Madagascar (PÉRICART 1996).

Biology. The species inhabits corn (Zea sp.), Terminalis bellarica, Tithonia diversifolia and castor bean plant (Ricinus communis) and is found associated with the aphid Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch, 1856), thrips and the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch, 1836. This predator has also been evaluated as a biocontrol agent and potential predator of the maize stem borer, Chilo partellus (Swinhoe, 1885), and Tetranychus urticae (JALALI & SINGH 2002; BALLAL et al. 2003a, 2009) and the mealybugs Phenacoccus solenopsis and Paracoccus marginatus (BALLAL et al. 2012b). It has also been recently collected from Spathodea companulata (rain-drop tree) and from dry fallen leaves and flowers. TAWFIK & EL- HUSSEINI (1971) reported that this species was commonly found on corn and fed on a variety of insects and mites.

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 pages 210-211, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0018, http://zenodo.org/record/3699210

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Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.3699214 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.3699216 (DOI)
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Journal article: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0018 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3699210 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/0E67F158856D960BFFEA7A36FFB2FFB6 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/F25E8920856E960FFC797D3AFD30FC23 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/162462522 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/23693/taxon/F25E8920856E960FFC797D3AFD30FC23.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Poppius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Anthocoridae
Genus
Blaptostethus
Species
pallescens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Blaptostethus pallescens Poppius, 1909 sec. Ballal, Akbar, Yamada, Wachkoo & Varshney, 2018

References

  • POPPIUS B. 1909: Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Anthocoriden. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 37 (9): 1 - 43.
  • CARAYON J. 1972 a: Caracteres systematiques et classification des Anthocoridae (Hemipt.). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, Nouvelle Serie 8: 309 - 349.
  • BALLAL C. R., GUPTA T., JOSHI S. & CHANDRASHEKHAR K. 2009: Evaluation of an anthocorid predator Blaptostethus pallescens against two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae. In: CASTANE C. & PERDIKIS D. (eds.): Integrated Control in Protected Crops. IOBC / WPRS Bulletin 49: 127 - 132.
  • MURALEEDHARAN N. 1977 b: Some genera of Anthocorinae (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) from south India. Entomon 2: 231 - 236.
  • CARAYON J. 1958 b: Quelques Hemipteres Anthocoridae des iles Mascareignes. Memoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, Serie E 9: 335 - 348.
  • TAWFIK M. F. S. & EL HUSSEINI M. M. 1971: The life history of the Blaptostethus piceus Fieber, var. pallescens Poppius (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae). Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Egypt 55: 239 - 252.
  • 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.
  • JALALI S. K. & SINGH S. P. 2002: Seasonal activity of stem borers and their natural enemies on fodder maize. Entomon 27: 137 - 146.
  • BALLAL C. R., SINGH S. P., POORANI J. & GUPTA T. 2003 a: Biology and rearing requirements of an anthocorid predator, Blaptostethus pallescens Poppius (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae). Journal of Biological Control 17: 29 - 33.
  • BALLAL C. R., GUPTA T. & SUNIL J. 2012 b: Predatory potential of two indigenous anthocorid predators on Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley and Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink. Journal of Biological Control 26: 18 - 22.