On an Account of Coreoidea (Heteroptera: Hemiptera) from Chhattisgarh, India

Reuter (1910) first established the Coreoidea as a superfamily of the Heteroptera and Leston et al. (1954) placed the Coreoidea within infraorder Pentatomomorpha. The superfamily includes fi ve families: Alydidae (broad headed bugs), Coreidae (Leaf-footed bugs or Squash bugs), Rhopalidae (Scentless plant bugs), Stenocephalidae (confi ned to Eastern Hemisphere) and Hyocephalidae (endemic to Australia), comprising of 2376 species from the world (Henry 2009). Of these, about 200 species under 60 genera are so far known from India including 78 endemic species.