Annotated catalogue of the flower bugs from India (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae, Lasiochilidae) Author Ballal, Chandish R. National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, India; e-mail: ballalchandish @ gmail. com ballalchandish@gmail.com Author Akbar, Shahid Ali Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Srinagar, 190007 India; e-mail: kingakbarali @ gmail. com kingakbarali@gmail.com Author Yamada, Kazutaka Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Bunka-no-Mori Park, Mukoterayama, Hachiman-cho, Tokushima, 770 - 8070 Japan; yamada.kaz@gmail.com Author Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad Department of Zoology, Government Degree College, Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, 192303 India; e-mail: aijaz _ shoorida @ yahoo. co. in aijaz_shoorida@yahoo.co.in Author Varshney, Richa National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, India; e-mail: ballalchandish @ gmail. com ballalchandish@gmail.com text Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 2018 2018-07-05 58 1 207 226 journal article 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0018 260e27c9-9690-4148-b9a2-36dbfb1d27d6 1804-6487 3699210 D8990E36-0347-4FAF-B708-49FBD9B48EA8 Alofa sodalis ( White, 1879 ) Cardiastethus sodalis Buchanan-White, 1879: 142 . SYNTYPE (S): sex not indicated, United States , Hawaiian Islands (HNHM). Buchananiella sodalis : REUTER (1884) : 681 (new combination). Alofa sodalis : HERRING (1976) : 150 (new combination). Distribution in India . No detailed locality given ( NASSER & ABDURAHIMAN 1990 , as Buchananiella sodalis ). General distribution. This species is widespread throughout the tropics and subtropics of the world: tropical Africa, Pacific Islands, North, Central and South America, West Indies ( CARAYON 1958a , CARPINTERO 2002 , LATTIN 2007 ). It is considered to be native to the Hawaiian Islands ( LATTIN 2007 ).