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Anthocoris muraleedharani Yamada 2010

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

Anthocoris muraleedharani Yamada, 2010

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Anthocoris muraleedharani Yamada, 2010 in YAMADA et al. (2010a:416). HOLOTYPE:, India, Bangalore (TKPM).

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE:, progeny of the specimens originally collected at ‘ INDIA: Karnataka / Bangalore, ix. 2008 / N13°01 ′ 62.2 ″ / E77°35 ′ 05.3 ″ / 932 m above MSL / C. R. Ballal leg.’ [printed], ‘Host Insect:/ Ferrisia virgata / Host Plant:/ Bauhinia purpurea / [Lab. Reared culture]’ [printed], ‘Holotype / Anthocoris muraleedharani / Yamada, 2010 ’ [printed, red square] (TKPM).

Additional material examined. INDIA: KARNATAKA: Bangalore, Attur, x.2014, 1 3 ♀♀, from Magnolia champaka (L.) Baill. ex Pierre (TKPM).

Distribution in India. Karnataka: Attur (this paper), Bangalore (YAMADA et al. 2010a).

General distribution. Endemic.

Biology. The species inhabits plantations of Bauhinia purpurea, feeding on mealybugs Ferrisia virgata Cockerell, 1893. Observed as a potential predator of Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley, 1898 and Paracoccus marginatus Williams & Granara, 1992 (YAMADA et al. 2010a). The specimens were also collected from the Champaka tree, Magnolia champaca (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 pages 209-210, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0018, http://zenodo.org/record/3699210

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F25E8920856F9608FC6A7CF1FE49FE40

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.3699212 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.4468747 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/B36C1A2BCB32213EFEC195ECA9B15013 (URL)
Is part of
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)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/D8990E36-0347-4FAF-B708-49FBD9B48EA8 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/F25E8920856F9608FC6A7CF1FE49FE40 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/162462503 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/23693/taxon/F25E8920856F9608FC6A7CF1FE49FE40.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
TKPM
Family
Anthocoridae
Genus
Anthocoris
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Yamada
Species
muraleedharani
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Anthocoris muraleedharani Yamada, 2010 sec. Ballal, Akbar, Yamada, Wachkoo & Varshney, 2018

References

  • YAMADA K., BALLAL C. R., GUPTA T. & POORANI J. 2010 a: Description of a new species of Anthocoris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) from southern India, associated with striped mealybug on purple orchid tree. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50: 415 - 424.