Pentatomidae fauna of India

Cimex bioculatus Fabricius (1775) 

Pentatoma clanda Say (1825)

Perillus claudus Uhler (1876)

Oplomus virgatus Stål (1862) 

Perillus bioculatus Stal (1872) 

Mineus bioculatus Uhler (1886) 

Perriloides bioculatus Schouteden (1907b)

Perillus bioculatus var. claudus Caesar (1912)

Perillus bioculatus Knight (1952)

Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae

• Distinct black "Y-shaped" marking on the pronotum
• Robust around the pronotum and posterior abdomen, giving a subtle hourglass shape.
• Scutellum is not U-shaped, its tip not reaching apex of abdomen.
• Frena about one and half the length of scutellum
• External scent efferent system (SES) represented by slit-like ostiole
• The fore-femora with a ventral, elongated spine

Spermathecal duct extension reflexes dorsally at an angle of 180° before entering the spool-like spermathecal bulb. The flange of spermathecal bulb consists of anterior and posterior lips.

Eggs are laid in June-July in a compact double row containing 18-25 eggs on the upper surface of potato leaves, hatch in 5 to 8 days and sucking plant juices from potato stems. Total development from egg to adult is about 25-30 days with a fecundity of 21.8 eggs per day. Adults enter the overwintering stage in September or October (Bishop et al., 1982).

Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) on potato, Zygogramma bicolorata on parthenium (Prasad & Pal, 2015), Chrysomela populi L. on popular plant (Tarla and Tarla, 2018).

India, Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine) and Mexico (Chandra et al., 2019).

Three colour morphs viz., red, deep yellow and black & white are noted all over the world (Chandra et al., 2019).

Adams, T. S. (2001) Morphology of the internal reproductive system of the male and female two-spotted stink bug, Perillus bioculatus (F.) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) and the transfer of products during mating. Invertebrate Reproduction & Development, 39(1), 45-53, https://doi.org/10.1080/07924259.2001.9652466

Chandra, K., Bhandari, R. & Kushwaha, S. (2019) Invasive alien species (IAS) Perillus bioculatus (Fabricius, 1765) Insecta:  Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) with one colour morph first time reported from India. International Journal of Global Science Research, 6(1), 930-933.

Elisovetcaia, D., Derjanschi, V., Agas'eva, I. & Nefedova, M. (2020) Some results of breeding a predatory stink bug of Perillus bioculatus F.  (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) in the Republic of Moldova. BIO Web of Conferences 21, 00024. https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20202100024

Fabricius, J. C. (1775) Systema entomologiae sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species; adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus et observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae, xxxii + 832pp.

G. Bishop, et al. (1982) Management of Potato Insects in the Western States. REP Pub., 64.

Packauskas, R. J. (2012) The Pentatomidae, or Stink Bugs, of Kansas with a key to species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). The Great Lakes Entomologist, 45(3-4), 210-219.

Prasad, C. S. & Pal, R. (2015) First record of two spotted stink bug, Perillus bioculatus (Fab.) from Meerut (U.P.) North India. International Journal of Environmental & Agriculture Research, 1(3), 9-11.

Tarla, S. & Tarla, G. (2018) Detection of Perillus bioculatus (F.) (Heteroplera: Pentatomidae) on a New Host in Anatolia. International Journal of Agriculture Innovations and Research, 7(3), 2319-1473.