Compsidolon kerzhneri Kulik, 1973

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 : 477-478

Compsidolon kerzhneri Kulik, 1973

( Figs. 9–10 , 40–43 )

Compsidolon kerzhneri Kulik, 1973: 21 ; Kerzhner, 1988: 75; Nonnaizab and Yang, 1994: 17; Schuh, 1995: 297; Kerzhner and Josifov, 1999: 329.

Specimens examined. 7 males, 2 females, CHINA: Beijing (39°9'N, 116°22'E), 20-27.VI.1957, He-Song YING and Shao-Hua LI leg.; 8 males (one of them photographed), 5 females (one of them photographed), CHINA: Hongtong County (36°15'N, 111°40'E), Shanxi Province, alt. 1500m, 13.VII. 2006, Xiao-Ming LI leg..

Diagnosis. Small size, total length 2.27–2.34 (male), 2.35–2.56 (female); general coloration yellowish brown; head, pronotum and hemelytra yellowish brown with dark brown spots and sometimes not obvious; vestiture covered with recumbent, light, simple setae and silvery, scale-like setae; interocular distance larger than width of eye; labium reaching to hind coxae; cuneus pale at base, membrane translucid, lightened at base; hind femora almost completely dark; tibial spines dark with black base, tibiae not darkened at base. Male genitalia ( Figs. 40– 43 ): Body of endosoma relatively small, sigmoid, curving, with one apical spine.

Host plant. Artemisia gmelinii ( Kerzhner, 1988) . Distribution. China (Beijing, Shanxi), Russia.

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.