Compsidolon pumilum ( Jakovlev, 1876 )

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 : 480

Compsidolon pumilum ( Jakovlev, 1876)

( Figs. 15–16 , 52–55 )

Agalliastes pumilus Jakovlev, 1876: 121 .

Psallus atomosus Reuter, 1878: 150 ; Reuter, 1910: 86.

Psallus fuscopunctatus Knight, 1930: 126 .

Compsidolon pumilum: Wagner and Weber, 1964: 491 ; Wagner, 1965: 121; Wagner, 1975: 143; Nonnaizab and Yang, 1994: 17; Schuh, 1995:298; Kerzhner and Schuh, 1998: 242; Kerzhner and Josifov, 1999: 330; Konstantinov, 2006: 497.

Specimens examined. 1 male (photographed), 2 females (one of them photographed), CHINA: Hinggan Meng (45°03'N, 121°28'E), Nei Mongol Autonomous Region, 2.VII.1987; 1 female, CHINA: Kazak Autonomous County of Mori (43°49'N, 90°17'E), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 22.VII. 1992.

Diagnosis. Small size, total length 2.68 (male), 2.65 (female); general coloration light yellow, hemelytra and scutellum with dark spots, pronotum without any spots; dorsum covered with recumbent, dark, simple setae and silvery setae; frons projecting, with dark radial stripes; vertex with a transverse row of dark spots near the posterior margin; antennal segment I completely black, segments II, III, and IV pale; labium reaching to hind coxae; tibial spines dark with black base, all tibiae darkened at base, sometimes not very obvious. Male genitalia ( Figs. 52–55 ): Endosoma relatively small, about sigmoid, slightly forked at end of apical spine.

Host plants. Artemisia gallica ( Linnavuori, 1971) , Artemisia monogyna , Artemisia obtusitoloba and Atriplex cana ( Konstantinov, 2006).

Distribution. China (Nei Mongol, Xinjiang), Russia, France, Spain, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Crimea, Armenia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Egypt, USA.

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 20. Adult habitus views of Compsidolon spp. 13. C. pilosum (male); 14. C. pilosum (female); 15. C. pumilum (male); 16. C. pumilum (female); 17. C. salicellum (male); 18. C. salicellum (female); 19. C. uncum (male); 20. C. uncum (female).

FIGURES 48 – 63. Male genitalia of Compsidolon spp. 48 – 51. C. pilosum: 48. Endosoma; 49. Left paramere; 50. Right paramere; 51. Phallotheca. 52 – 55. C. pumilum: 52. Endosoma; 53. Left paramere; 54. Right paramere; 55. Phallotheca. 56 – 59. C. salicellum: 56. Endosoma; 57. Left paramere; 58. Right paramere; 59. Phallotheca. 60 – 63. C. uncum: 60. Endosoma; 61. Left paramere; 62. Right paramere; 63. Phallotheca.