Pentatomidae fauna of India

Canthecona grisea Dallas, 1851

Picromerus obtusus Walker, 1867

Picromerus nigrivitta Walker, 1867

Picromerus sundanus Breddin, 1902

Picromerus griseus Schouteden, 1907

Cimex obtusus Kirkaldy, 1909

Cimex sundanus Kirkaldy, 1909

Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae

• Head with apex truncate; clypeus as long as mandibular plates 
• Antennae with first segment much shorter than apex of head
• Pronotum with anterolateral margins straight, with minute denticles, not smooth
• Humeri angulate with one or two denticles apically
• Mesosternum with narrow, longitudinal carina at the middle
• Basal abdominal sternite with minute, indistinct angulation at middle.
• Connexivum completely exposed
• Forefemora with a small preapical spine.

Dorsoposterior rim of pygophore with two subtriangular parandria; ventroposterior rim with a medial notch and very long setae, laterally convex and sinuate. Paramere basally wide, apex hooked and digitiform, outer margin arched and very thickened; inner branch short and obtuse. Aedeagus with a pair of basolateral conjunctival lobes divided into proximal small, membranous branch and distal long and narrow branch, with sclerotized apex. Apical conjunctival lobe long and bifurcate.

Small, elliptical spermathecal bulb, smaller than middle dilation, distal flanges equal and trunk like at the middle.

Unknown

Unknown

Assam (Kirkaldy, 1909); Bihar (Pusa) (Lefroy and Howlett, 1909); Sikkim (Atkinson, 1888), Nagaland: Naga hills (Distant, 1902); Uttar Pradesh: Aligarh Univ. (Azim, 2011); Meghalaya: Garo hills (Chakraborty and Ghosh, 1999); Tura (Paiva, 1919); Northeast India (Distant, 1879); North Hindostan (Walker, 1867).

The species is presently restricted to northern part of India.

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Chakraborty S. P. and Ghosh, L. K. (1999). Fauna of Meghalaya-Part 4, Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea, 391-429, State Fauna Series, iv, 1-485 pp., published by Director, Zoological Survey of India. ISBN: 81-85874-24-7.

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Paiva, C. A. (1919). Rhynchota from the Garo Hills, Assam. Records of the Indian Museum, 16: 349–377.

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Zhao Q., Liu, G. and Bu, W. (2013). A review of the Chinese species of the genus Picromerus Amyot & Serville, with description of a new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae). Zootaxa, 3613 (2): 146–164.