On Heteroptera (Insecta) from the Eastern Ghats, India

This paper reports on the Heteroptera collected by Dr. M.S. Mani and party from the Eastern Ghats, India, as part of the programme of a Research Project, with financial grant from the Department of Environment and Forests, Government of India, New Delhi, during 1985-1988. One hundred and eighty seven species are recorded here; of these seventy-seven were collected by the Research Project's field parties. The material examined is listed only in the case of species collected by the project survey. The other species, included here for the sake of completeness of record, are from other material in the Zoological Survey and also reported in earlier literature from the Eastern Ghats. The collection includes many interesting families like Plataspidae (10 species), Scutellaridae (8), Podopidae (1), Pentatomidae (48), Coreidae (42), Berytidae (4), Lygaeidae (28), Pyrrhocoridae (5), Tingidae (2), Phymatidae (3), Reduviidae (29) and Miridae (10). Of these 52 species, marked with are reported for the first time from the region. The localities from which the collections were made are also listed.