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 Amphiareus constrictus ( Stål, 1860 ) ( Fig. 1 ) Xylocoris constrictus Stål, 1860: 44 . HOLOTYPE :, Brazil , Rio de Janeiro (NHRS). Xylocoris fulvescens Walker, 1872: 160 . LECTOTYPE (designated by PÉRICART 1972: 269 , as ‘type’):, Ceylon [= Sri Lanka ] (BMNH). Synonymized by HERRING (1965: 203) . Amphiareus fulvescens : DISTANT (1904) : 221 (new generic placement). Amphiareus constrictus : HERRING (1965) : 203 (new combination). Material examined. INDIA : KARNATAKA : Mandya, ii.2013 , 2 2 ♀♀ ( TKPM , NBAIR ). TAMIL NADU : Attur, 6.ii.2014 , 1 ♀ ( TKPM ); Wellington, Ooty, ii.2016 , 1 ♀ ( TKPM ) . Distribution in India . Karnataka : Mandya (this paper); Kerala : Kottayam, Thekkady, Trivandrum (MURALEEDHARAN & ANANTHAKRISHNAN 1978a); Meghalaya : Garo Hills, Songsak ( MURALEEDHARAN 1977a ); Tamil Nadu : Kallar ( MURALEEDHARAN & ANANTHAKRISHNAN 1978a ), Attur, Wellington (this paper). General distribution. Pan-temperate and pan-tropical areas ( PÉRICART 1996 , YAMADA 2008 b , AUKEMA et al. 2013). Biology. The species is widely distributed, generally occurring in hay stacks, sheats of palms, nests of birds and leaf litter. It feeds on thrips Apelaunothrips consimilis (Ananthakrishnan, 1969) ( MURALEEDHARAN & ANANTHAKRISHNAN 1978a ). In Karnataka , it was recorded from sugarcane and mango, and found associated with thrips and mites (this paper).