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).

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