Compsidolon absinthii ( Scott, 1870 )

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 : 473

Compsidolon absinthii ( Scott, 1870)

Agalliastes absinthii Scott, 1870: 100 .

Compsidolon absinthii: Wagner and Weber, 1964: 491 ; Wagner, 1965: 119; Wagner, 1975: 138; Stehlik, 1978: 108; Tamanini, 1982: 129; Qi and Nonnaizab, 1995: 226; Schuh,1995: 294; Kerzhner and Josifov, 1999: 328.

Diagnosis. Small to middle size, total length 3.20–3.70 (male), 2.80–3.40 (female); dorsum yellow with dark spots; head width larger than height; eye width less than interocular distance; antennal segment I with two darkened areas, each bearing black bristle; labium reaching to abdomen; cuneus with dark spots; tibial spines dark with black bases tibiae pale at base; tarsal segment I shorter than segments II and III; claws slender with narrow base, pulvilli not extending beyond middle of claw. Male genitalia: Body of endosoma S-shaped with one apical spine, secondary gonopore large, located below apical spine; left paramere boat-shaped; right paramere lanceolate; phallotheca moderately curving.

Host plants. Artemisia absinthum ( Linnavuori, 1971) , Artemisia sp. ( Pericart, 1965).

Distribution. China (Qinghai), Russia, France, Spain, Algeria, Italy, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldavia, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Algeria, Morocco, Kazakhstan.

Remark. We could not examine specimens of this species. The diagnosis is based on the paper of Wagner (1965). Scott (1870) described Agalliastes absinthii from France. Subsequently, this species had been transferred from Agalliastes to Compsidolon by Wagner and Weber (1964), and Wagner (1965) provided its further description. Qi and Nonnaizab (1995) recorded C. absinthii firstly from China. We could not examine specimens of this species. The diagnosis is based on the paper of Wagner (1965).