Almeida pilosa ( Poppius, 1909 )

Ballal, Chandish R., Akbar, Shahid Ali, Yamada, Kazutaka, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad & Varshney, Richa, 2018, Annotated catalogue of the flower bugs from India (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae, Lasiochilidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1), pp. 207-226 : 208

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scientific name	Almeida pilosa ( Poppius, 1909 )
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Almeida pilosa ( Poppius, 1909)

Cardiastethus pilosus Poppius, 1909: 21 .

SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, Ceylon [= Sri Lanka], Henaratgoda ( NHMW); 1 ♀, Indonesia: Sulawesi, Makassar [= Ujung Pandang] ( MCSN).

Almeida pilosus: DISTANT (1910): 301 (new combination).

Type material examined. SYNTYPE: ♀, ‘ Celebes / Makassar / I 74 / O. Beccari’ [printed + handwritten], ‘194’ [printed, blue square], ‘Museo Civ. / Genova’ [printed, orange square], ‘ Cardiastethus / pilosus n. sp. / B. Poppius det.’ [handwritten + printed], ‘ SYNTYPUS / Cardiastethus / pilosus / Poppius, 1909 ’ [printed + handwritten] ( MCSN).

Distribution in India. Andhra Pradesh: Tirupati (MURALEEDHARAN & ANANTHAKRISHNAN 1978a); West Bengal: Kolkata ( DISTANT 1910).

General distribution. Outside India it is known from Indonesia (Sulawesi Archipelago) ( DISTANT 1910), Sri Lanka ( DISTANT 1910), Taiwan ( POPPIUS 1915), China (Hainan, Yunnan) ( BU & ZHENG 2001), Japan ( YAMADA et al. 2016a).

Remarks. There is an alary polymorphism in the species ( MURALEEDHARAN & ANANTHAKRISHNAN 1978a).