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Almeida pilosa

  • 1. National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, India; e-mail: ballalchandish @ gmail. com
  • 2. Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Srinagar, 190007 India; e-mail: kingakbarali @ gmail. com
  • 3. Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Bunka-no-Mori Park, Mukoterayama, Hachiman-cho, Tokushima, 770 - 8070 Japan;
  • 4. Department of Zoology, Government Degree College, Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, 192303 India; e-mail: aijaz _ shoorida @ yahoo. co. in

Description

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).

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 207-226 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1) on page 208, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0018, http://zenodo.org/record/3699210

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Poppius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Anthocoridae
Genus
Almeida
Species
pilosa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Almeida pilosa (Poppius, 1909) sec. Ballal, Akbar, Yamada, Wachkoo & Varshney, 2018

References

  • POPPIUS B. 1909: Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Anthocoriden. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 37 (9): 1 - 43.
  • 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.
  • POPPIUS B. 1915: H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Nabidae, Anthocoridae, Termatophylidae, Miridae, Isometopidae und Ceratocombidae (Hemiptera). Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 80 A (8): 1 - 80.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.