Compsidolon eximium ( Reuter, 1879 )

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 : 474

Compsidolon eximium ( Reuter, 1879)

( Figs. 3–4 , 28–31 )

Atomophora eximia Reuter, 1879: 288 ; Linnavuori, 1990: 47.

Coniortodes kiritshenkoi Kerzhner, 1962: 148 (syn. by Kerzhner and Konstantinov, 1997: 122); Wagner, 1965: 127. Compsidolon eximium: Kerzhner and Konstantinov, 1997: 122 .

Specimens examined. 8 males (one of them photographed), 9 females (one of them photographed), CHINA: Weixian County (39°83'N, 114°53'E), Hebei Province, 12. VII. 2004, Guo-Qing LIU and Le-Yi ZHENG leg..

Diagnosis. Moderately large size, total length 4.45–4.51 (male), 3.76–3.96 (female); general coloration yellowish brown, head, pronotum and hemelytra (except cuneus) with dense, dark brown spots; cuneus yellow without dark spots, membrane translucid, coloration not uniform; vestiture composed of dense, recumbent, dark, simple setae and silvery setae; interocular distance shorter than width of eye in male; labium just reaching hind coxae; tibial spines dark with black base, tibiae darkened at base. Male genitalia ( Figs. 28–31 ): Body of endosoma relatively slender, sigmoid, curving, apical portion as in Fig. 28 .

Distribution. China (Hebei, recorded from China for the first time), Russia, Turkestan, Tajikistan, Kirghizia.

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 24 – 35. Male genitalia of Compsidolon spp. 24 – 27. C. ailaoshanensis: 24. Endosoma; 25. Left paramere; 26. Right paramere; 27. Phallotheca. 28 – 31. C. eximium: 28. Endosoma; 29. Left paramere; 30. Right paramere; 31. Phallotheca. 32 – 35. C. flavidum: 32. Endosoma; 33. Left paramere; 34. Right paramere; 35. Phallotheca.