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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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).

References

BU W. - J. & ZHENG L. - Y. 2001: Hemiptera. Lasiochilidae. Lyctocoridae. Anthocoridae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta. Vol. 24. Science Press, Beijing, vii + 267 pp (in Chinese, with English summary).

DISTANT W. L. 1910: Rhynchota. - Vol. V. Heteroptera: Appendix. In: SHIPLEY A. E. & MARSHALL G. A. K. (eds.): The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London, xii + 362 pp.

MURALEEDHARAN N. & ANANTHAKRISHNAN T. N. 1978 a: On the tribes Cardiastethini and Almeidini from South India (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae). Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India 1: 65 - 70.

POPPIUS B. 1909: Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Anthocoriden. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 37 (9): 1 - 43.

POPPIUS B. 1915: H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Nabidae, Anthocoridae, Termatophylidae, Miridae, Isometopidae und Ceratocombidae (Hemiptera). Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 80 A (8): 1 - 80.

YAMADA K., YASUNAGA T. & ISHIKAWA T. 2016 a: Family Anthocoridae. Pp. 422 - 428. In: HAYASHI M., TOMOKUNI M., YOSHI- ZAWA K. & ISHIKAWA T. (eds): Catalogue of the Insects of Japan. Vol. 4. Paraneoptera. The Entomological Society of Japan & Touka shobo, Tokyo, 629 pp.