author(s)
Sailesh Chattopadhyay

abstract
Two Lygaeid bugs Graptostethus nigriceps Stal and Graptostethus quadrisignatus Distant were noticed to cause considerable damage by sucking the sap of tender shoot, pod and leaves of Dalbergia sissoo in nursery and young plantation in the Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand and this finding documents a new record of host plant (Dalbergia sissoo) of these hemipteran bugs of Jharkhand.