Compsidolon nebulosum ( Reuter, 1878 )

Li, Xiao-Ming & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2014, A study on the genus Compsidolon Reuter, 1899 from China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 3784 (4), pp. 469-483 : 478-479

Compsidolon nebulosum ( Reuter, 1878)

( Figs. 11–12 , 44–47 )

Psallus nebulosus Reuter, 1878: 142 ; Wagner 1957: 78.

Compsidolon nebulosum: Wagner, 1965: 120 ; Schuh, 1995:297; Linnavuori, 2010: 381 . Compsidolon punctulatus Qi and Nonnaizab, 1995: 330 . n. syn.

Specimens examined. 1 male (photographed) and 1 female (photographed) (paratypes of C. punctulatum Qi and Nonnaizab, 1995 ), CHINA: Maigaiti County (38°54'N, 77°39'E), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 11. IV. 1993.

Diagnosis. Small, total length 2.56 (male), 2.76 (female); body light yellow, head, pronotum, hemelytra, scutellum with orange-red, big spots, apex of clavus and corium darkened, forming median fuscous stripe on hemelytra; dorsum with recumbent, sparse, dark, simple setae and silvery setae; clypeus relatively short, with reddish spots; antennal segment I yellow, with orange red spots or ring in middle, segments II light red; labium slightly exceeding hind coxae; exposed part of mesoscutum almost entirely orange-red; apex of clavus and corium with a dark brown band; legs yellow, femora with reddish spots; tibial spines light brown with black base, tibiae not obviously darkened at base; venter deep brown in middle and both sides dark red. Male genitalia ( Figs. 44–47 ): Endosoma sigmoid with one apical spine, secondary gonopore developed with membranous margin; phallotheca bending and attenuated apically.

Distribution. Chian (Xinjiang), Turkestan, Iran.

Discussion. Qi and Nonnaizab (1995) described a new species C. punctulatum from Xinjiang. We have examined type specimens and find that C. nebulosum and C. punctulatum are conspecific, C. punctulatum is a synonym of C. nebulosum .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 12. Adult habitus views of Compsidolon spp. 1. C. ailaoshanensis (male); 2. C. ailaoshanensis (female); 3. C. eximium (male); 4. C. eximium (female); 5. C. flavidum (male); 6. C. flavidum (female); 7. C. furcillatum (male); 8. C. furcillatum (female); 9. C. kerzhneri (male); 10. C. kerzhneri (female); 11. C. nebulosum (male); 12. C. nebulosum (female)

FIGURES 36 – 47. Male genitalia of Compsidolon spp. 36 – 39. C. furcillatum: 36. Endosoma; 37. Left paramere; 38. Right paramere; 39. Phallotheca. 40 – 43. C. kerzhneri: 40. Endosoma; 41. Left paramere; 42. Right paramere; 43. Phallotheca. 44 – 47. C. nebulosum: 44. Endosoma; 45. Left paramere; 46. Right paramere; 47. Phallotheca.