New records of aquatic bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Sunderban biosphere reserve, West Bengal, India

Abstract

The present study reports six species of aquatic Hemiptera belonging to the families Belostomatidae, Nepidae and Hydrometridae as the new record from Sunderban Biosphere Reserve namely, Lethocerus indicus (Lepeletier & Serville, 1825), Diplonychus annulatus (Fabricius, 1781), Diplonychus rusticus (Fabricius, 1781), Laccotrephes griseus (Guerin-Meneville, 1835), Ranatra digitata Hafiz & Pradhan, 1947 and Hydrometra butleri Hungerford & Evans, 1934. The communication also provides a list of aquatic bugs so far reported from this biosphere reserve.