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).