Hebrus liliimacula Horváth, 1929

Kment, Petr, Jindra, Zdeněk & Berchi, Gavril Marius, 2016, Review of West-Palaearctic Hebridae with description of a new species and redescription of Hebrus fulvinervis (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Zootaxa 4147 (3), pp. 201-239 : 211-212

Hebrus liliimacula Horváth, 1929

Hebrus liliimacula Horváth, 1929: 314 . Syntypes: ♂♀, ‘Caucasus’ (HNHM).

Distribution. Caucasus (without details) ( Horváth 1929).

Andersen (1995) interpreted the distribution of H. liliimacula as ‘Transcaucasia’ and Kanyukova (1997) expected its distribution in Armenia or Azerbaijan. However, examination of rich material of Hebrus from the Caucasus, Turkey and Iran did not led to rediscovery of the species ( Kanyukova 1997, 2006; Kment & Kanyukova 2010; Fent et al. 2011).

Comment. This species with characteristic ‘lilly-shaped’ whitish pattern on the membrane was described by Horváth (1929) based on male and female syntypes from the Caucasus collected by H. Leder. The species has not been collected since. Kanyukova (1997) redescribed and keyed the species based on a single female originating from the same series as the syntypes . Proper description of the male is therefore missing. Checking for a male syntype within the type series deposited in HNHM might shed new light on this problem.