Redescription of Dalader acuticosta (Coreidae: Coreinae: Daladerini): First report from Jammu and Kashmir, India

Abstract

Dalader acuticosta a member of Coreidae (Coreinae: Daladerini), has been reported first time from Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It belongs to the Phylum Arthropoda, Class Insecta, Order Hemiptera, Family Coreidae, and Subfamily Coreinae. In India it is found in West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya and Himachal Pradesh. It is very beautiful bug. It is rare species and only two specimens have been collected on the ground with moist soil from Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir that too for the very first time. Earlier it was not reported from Jammu and Kashmir. Adults of Dalader acuticosta are fried and eaten in north-eastern India.