Volume 24, Issue 73, January - June, 2023

First record of genus Praetextatus Distant (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Caystrine) from India

Sandeep Kushwaha^1♦, Hirdesh Kumar², Sonam Jahan³

¹Government Science College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
²Zoological Survey of India, ‘M’ Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, India
³Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional center, Jabalpur- 482002, Madhya Pradesh, India

^♦Corresponding author
Government Science College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh India

ABSTRACT

Genus Praetextatus Distant is recorded for the first time from India. Praetextatus typicus Distant, 1901 is redescribed and illustrated with a key to species of this genus. The specimen was deposited in National Zoological Collection of Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.

Keywords: Heteroptera, new to India, Western Himalaya, India

Species, 2023, 24(73), e24s1024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e24s1024

Published: 11 March 2023