Moissonia befui Yasunaga, 1999

Duwal, Ram Keshari & Lee, Seunghwan, 2011, A new genus, three new species, and new records of plant bugs from Korea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Phylini), Zootaxa 3049, pp. 47-58 : 49-50

Moissonia befui Yasunaga, 1999

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Moissonia befui Yasunaga, 1999: 196 (n. sp., diag., desc., figs.); 2001: 166 (diag., fig.).

Diagnosis. Recognized by small, oval, pale-green body; semitransparent dorsum furnished with short reclining pubescence and dark setae; shining pronotum with numerous dark spots; and dark brown femora with large black spots apically.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 3K): Sclerotized rings thick rimmed, bursa copulatrix with somewhat sclerotized vertically U-shaped structure in middle, furnished with minute spines and laterally attached with membranes.

Measurements. (♀). (1): Body length 3.20; head width across eyes 0.80; vertex width 0.39; lengths of antennal segments I–IV: 0.22, 0.81, 0.53, 0.41; length of labium 1.11; mesal pronotal length 0.56; basal pronotal width 1.26; width across hemelytron 1.42; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus: 1.05, 1.56, 0.35.

Specimens examined. South Korea: Gyeongsangbuk-do: 1♀, Ulleungdo (Is.), 8.viii.2010; R. K. Duwal (SNU) .

Distribution. Japan, Korea (South).

Discussion. In Korea, this species emerged in late spring and was collected on a unknown wild flowering creeper.