Anthocoris flavipes Reuter, 1884

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 : 209

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scientific name	Anthocoris flavipes Reuter, 1884
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Anthocoris flavipes Reuter, 1884: 80 . HOLOTYPE: ♀, Uzbekistan, Iskander (MZHF).

Anthocoris gyalpo Hutchinson, 1934: 137 . HOLOTYPE:, India, ‘Indian Tibet’, Leh, Residency Garden (PMNH). Synonymized by ELOV (1976: 377).

Distribution in India. Jammu and Kashmir: Ladakh ( HUTCHINSON 1934, MANI & SINGH 1961, PÉRICART 1996, BHAGAT 2015).

General distribution. Armenia (doubtful record) (PÉRICART 1996), Kazakhstan ( PÉRICART 1996), Kirgizia (PÉRICART 1996), Tajikistan ( PÉRICART 1996), China (Xizang) ( BU & ZHENG 2001), Iran ( GHAHARI et al. 2009).

Biology. The species was found on a number of important agricultural, horticultural and forest plants and feeds on species of several aphid genera including Anuraphis Del Guercio, 1907, Amphicercidus Oestlund, 1923, Aphis Linnaeus, 1758, Brachycaudus Goot, 1913, Macrosiphoneilla Guercio, 1911, and Pemphigus Hartig, 1839 ( BHAGAT 2015).

References

BHAGAT R. C. 2015: Diversity and updated systematic checklist of Cimicomorpha bugs (Heteroptera: Hemiptera) of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Himalaya (India). Indian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Life Sciences 5 (1): 275 - 279.

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).

ELOV E. S. 1976: Poluzhestkokrylye sem. Anthocoridae (Heteroptera) Sredney Azii i Kazakhstana. (Bugs of the family Anthocoridae (Heteroptera) from Middle-Asia and Kazakhstan). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 55: 369 - 380 (in Russian, English summary).

GHAHARI H., CARPINTERO D. L. & OSTOVAN H. 2009: An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Anthocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49: 43 - 58.

HUTCHINSON G. E. 1934: Report on terrestrial families of Heteroptera, Article III. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 10 (8): 119 - 146.

LINNAEUS C. 1758: Systema Naturae per regna triae naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Salvii, Holmiae, v + 824 pp.

MANI M. S. & SINGH S. 1961: Entomological Survey of Himalaya Part XXVI. A contribution to our knowledge of geography of the high-altitude insects of the nival zones from the North-west Himalaya. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 58: 387 - 406.

PERICART J. 1996: Family Anthocoridae Fieber, 1836 - flower bugs, minute pirate bugs. Pp. 108 - 140. In: AUKEMA B. & RIEGER CH. (eds.): Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 2. Cimicomorpha I. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xiv + 361 pp.

REUTER O. M. 1884: Monographia Anthocoridarum Orbis terrestris. Helsingforsiae, 204 pp. [Also published in Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 14 [1885]: 555 - 758.]