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On an Account of Reduviidae (Hempitera) from Chhattisgarh, India


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1 Zoological Survey of India, M, Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, India
2 Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional Centre, Vijay Nagar, Jabalpur-482002, India
 

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The family Reduviidae is the largest family of predaceous terrestrial hemiptera and a few are blood suckers. Some of them are pathogenic and transmit various diseases to man and animals. Members of this family are commonly known as “Assassin bugs”. These are small to large, robust or elongated, somewhat flattened, smooth, hairy or spiny bugs, which may vary in size ranging from 2 to 40 mm.
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Authors

B. Biswas
Zoological Survey of India, M, Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, India
Paramita Mukherjee
Zoological Survey of India, M, Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, India
Kailash Chandra
Zoological Survey of India, M, Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, India
M. E. Hassan
Zoological Survey of India, M, Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, India
Sandeep Kushwaha
Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional Centre, Vijay Nagar, Jabalpur-482002, India

Abstract


The family Reduviidae is the largest family of predaceous terrestrial hemiptera and a few are blood suckers. Some of them are pathogenic and transmit various diseases to man and animals. Members of this family are commonly known as “Assassin bugs”. These are small to large, robust or elongated, somewhat flattened, smooth, hairy or spiny bugs, which may vary in size ranging from 2 to 40 mm.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi.v114i1.168658