Cardiastethus pilosus Poppius, 1909

Yamada, Kazutaka, 2024, Taxonomic corrections on Oriental Anthocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) described by Bertil Poppius, Zootaxa 5424 (1), pp. 127-135 : 131-132

Cardiastethus pilosus Poppius, 1909

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Cardiastethus pilosus Poppius, 1909: 21 . Syntypes: Indonesia, Celebes [= Sumatra] (1 ♀, MCSN) and Ceylon [= Sri Lanka] (1 ♀, NHMW).

Almeida pilosus : Distant (1910: 301) (new generic placement, figure, redescription, distribution), Carayon (1972: 339) (figure).

Almeida pilosa : Poppius (1915: 8) (records, distribution), Esaki (1926: 171) (listed, distribution), Muraleedharan & Ananthakrishnan (1978: 69) (records, distribution, alary polymorphism), Ford (1979: 53, 78) (listed), Péricart (1987: 370) (records, distribution), Zheng & Bu (1990: 27) (listed, distribution), Péricart (1996: 128) (catalog, distribution), Bu & Zheng (2001: 53, 82–84, 228) (figures, redescription, distribution), Yasunaga (2001: pl. 88, 296) (photos of adults, records, diagnosis, distribution), Yamada & Hirowatari (2003: 46–47) (photo, record, distribution, diagnosis, habitat), Yamada & Hirowatari (2011: 64–65) (photo, records, distribution, habitat), Aukema et al. (2013: 93) (catalog, distribution), Yamada et al. (2016: 425) (catalog, distribution), Komatsu (2016: 97) (photo, record), Ballal et al. (2018: 208) (records, distribution).

Type material examined. Lectotype (present designation): ♀, ‘ Celebes \ Makassar \ I. 74 \ O. Beccari’ [with black frame, printed + handwritten], ‘194’ [light blue square], ‘Museo Civ. \ Genova’ [red square], ‘ Cardiastethus \ pilosus n. sp. \ B. Poppius det.’ [handwritten + printed] , ‘ SYNTYPUS \ Cardiastethus \ pilosus \ Poppius, 1909 ’ [light red square, printed + handwritten]; mounted on square card; deposited in MCSN ( Figs. 10–12 ) .

Remarks. The species was described based on two female specimens from Celebes (= Sulawesi Island, Indonesia; deposited in MCSN) and Ceylon (= Sri Lanka; deposited in NHMW), respectively, without designation of a holotype.The syntype in NHMW could not be examined in this study, but the one deposited in MCSN matches the original description and its good condition allows a safe identification; therefore it was designated as the lectotype of this species.

Poppius (1909) indicated the species might be placed in a separate genus; in the year following the original description, it was transferred to the newly described genus Almeida Distant, 1910 by Distant (1910).

Current status. Almeida pilosa ( Poppius, 1909) , valid species.

Figures

FIGURES 10–12. Lectotype (herein designated) of Cardiastethus pilosus Poppius, 1909 and its labels. 10–11, dorsal and lateral views; 12, labels. Scale: 0.5 mm.